[SunRescue] Really Big Hardware That Makes Noise And Takes Up Space

[William Janssen]

Well if you are near Sacramento you could look at my desk side Sun.
I have a tape drive (1/2 inch tape) that works with it.
Too big to put in a car but a van or SUV might work.

Bill K7NOM

Dan Jameyson wrote:
> 
> I have about 4'x6' in my home office that I'd like to fill with the
> largest, most physically impressive, old (or just plain cheap) and
> neatest Sun hardware... something that screams "Look at me, I'm *NOT*
> PnP and you can't buy me at CompUSA!" However, it still must be
> functional as a unix (ie, actually serve some sort of purpose and
> fulfill some sort of use) system. I don't know much about older sun
> hardware, except for some of the resources I've seen on the sunhelp.org
> page... so could someone out there give me some pointers on what "Big
> Stuff" is out there? I also saw one of those "big" reel tape drives at
> Weirdstuff a year or so ago; all I remember is that it said Sun on it -
> what the heck are those... I want one and I want to use it --- it's just
> so 20th century!
> 
> Also, the American Institute of Science and Technology (A California
> Public Benefit Corporation that I founded) should have a federal
> determination letter in about 6 months... so if anyone wants to send
> over computer equipment later, it will be tax-deductible and the
> equipment would have a safe and honorable home assisting our nonprofit
> goals.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Hey, wow, look, it's 4:40 am...
> 
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