[SunRescue] Q: regarding Axil 220/245 systems...

[Ken Hansen]

To be sure, whatever I "purge" will be offered here first, then if no one
bites,
it will pass on to eBay/Yahoo Auctions/what have you...

My system for this week will be a nice SS/2 w/Weitek & 32 Meg add-in board,
giving it a totalof 96 Meg RAM, along with 2 HDD trays and some sort of drive
in each. Not sure of the frame buffer yet, probably a CG6.

Over the course of the coming week I will piece it all together, clean it up
and
run some final tests to make sure it is OK, then post it for sale by Friday.

Next week - my LX w/ISDN NT-1 and homemade SunISDN CD-ROM/manual.

Then comes the SS/5 70 I suspect... After that Parts, Parts, Parts!

Believe me I am dragging it out so as to reduce the seperation anxiety! ;^)

Ken

"Hatle, Steven J." wrote:

> Ken,
>
> As the "great purge" approaches, please let us all know what you are going
> to be purging. You never know when one mans "purge" is another mans
> treasure! <grin>
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hansen [mailto:n2vip at impop.bellatlantic.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 7:48 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Q: regarding Axil 220/245 systems...
>
> Hello,
>     As I prepare for the great purge of older Sun equipment* I find
> myself
> looking at one of my "interesting" items and trying to figure out what
> to
> do with it: an Axil 220 motherboard.
>
> What I know about it:
>
> Well, it is an 85 Mhz SS/5 "clone" in a slightly larger case - it has a
> decent
> graphics system built-in (CG6 or TurboGX I think), takes up to 2 banks
> of 72 pin parity RAM, and each bank can be 2x4 Meg, 2x8 Meg, 2x16 Meg,
> or even 2x32 Meg (IIRC). It acccepts two stacked SBus cards (dual width
> cards won't work).
>
> This board came in a case w/PS, but I pulled it to swap in an Axil 245
> motherboard, which has a 110 Mhz SS/5 CPU, 3 banks of RAM and a
> built-in TurboGX+ framebuffer (4 Meg RAM).
>
> The Axil 220 motherboard has only 3 connectors that go off the board to
> neccessary (?) connections - SCSI, Floppy, and power. What I want to
> know is what can I do with this old motherboard?
>
>     - Does anyone have a dead Axil 220/245 system with good case/PS?
>
>     - Does anyone know the specs for a replacement PS?
>
>     - Would anyone want to buy this from me?
>
> I would consider putting the board in a small case *if* I could find a
> suitable
> PS, but baring that I have held on to the board in case the 245
> motherboard
> ever died.
>
> I will probably hold on to the Axil 245 system, but if anyone wants to
> make
> an offer, I'd be willing to listen. I have lots of appropriate RAM and
> the unit
> has a 1 Gig HD in it, so if you think you might be interested, let me
> know how
> you want it configured.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ken
> n2vip at bellatlantic.net
>
> * The great purge is coming as a result of my decision to go for the
> Ultra 5
>   system offered by Sun to students/faculty, thanks to all who helped me
> to
>   arrive at that decision - now I just need to rid myself of the other
> systems,
>   I will hope for a system sale a week through the end of May.
>
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