[SunRescue] Q: Regarding Sun Educator promo Ultra 5 system

[Ken Hansen]

So how many folks have this Motherboard? I have one (I am a big fan of
cheap SMP x86 systems, I have a 2xP133 (non-MMX), 2xPPro180 (the
famous Intel motherboard), and my current deskside machine a dual P2
333 Mhz system with 256M RAM and Win2K... I still lust after the Ultra5,
but this is a nice Intel box.

Note: I buy these motherboards when they get under $100 each, then wait
for the CPU prices to bottom-out. My current system took a year to
accumulate all the parts, but every item in the case was a bargain, down to
the 4 M S3-based video card for $10 (after CompUSA rebate!).

It's funny how we all work with the same machines... (and now that I think
about it, that PPro system (sitting unused right now, has 4x64 Meg EDO ECC
SIMMs in it - that Ultra 5 is starting to look pretty interesting...)

Ken
n2vip at bellatlantic.net

"Cyrus M. Reed" wrote:

> Even worse, try finding Buffered EDO ECC DRAM DIMMS, that's the *only*
> thing my Dual PPro board (Intel PR440FX) will take.  I love the system
> (built in 10/100 networking, Adaptec 7880 UW SCSI, I'd call it a
> workstation if I didn't know it would be insulting to the real thing), but
> RAM is a killer for it.