[SunRescue] Best Value Sun for $1000?

[nick at snowman.netnick]

I don't know if Ultra 5's have changed much since my work got them in, but
the ones we have are garbage.  They're less reliable than the PC clones
that we bought at the same time.  I've got I think 7 of them, and 5 of the
disks have died already.
	Nick

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:

> I've seen Ultra 5s for pretty darn close to $1k lately.. this would be
> a VERY nice home system.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:23:33PM -0500, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> > Hello,
> > The subject says it all. I currently have an IPX (2gb/64mb &20" grayscale)
> > that certainly works fun, but is Solaris 8 challenged and a wee bit pokey
> > when in CDE. I'd like to retire my PowerMac 8500 and go to a Sun for my
> > primary machine. Here at home that means I need to be able to do Internet
> > over dialup, word processing, light programming (Squeak Smalltalk and the
> > like), possibly some 3d rendering and run my copy of Real PC for those old
> > dos games I'm addicted to... ;>
> > 
> > I've seen that Data Instruments has an Ultra 1/170 for that much, but Mr.
> > Dikeman has warned me that they may not have any when I'm ready to buy in a
> > couple of months (This will be my wife's Christmas present to me). So
> > failing that, what would qualify as the best bang for the buck. The budget
> > may get a hundred or two higher, but not lower.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > William
> > 
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