[SunRescue] (no subject)

[Mike Nicewonger]

The 670 is a cool boxen, I have 2, they are heavy beasts (200 or 300 pounds
I think) so expect the shipping to cripple your savings account. Memoryx is
a good honest company, I find their regular prices to be a bit high but if
they have a special or an eBay sale going the stuff can be had cheap enough.
I do not know the other company. Be sure that when you buy RAM for the beast
is it true parity (very important)(avoid the 3 chip kind) and 80 ns or
faster, How much memory do you need? I may part with some of my stock of
genuine Sun memory. I also stock a lot of parts for that series of machines.

The best thing is to read the FAQ's and other info from Mr. Bill's site
www.sunhelp.org of course lurk/participate here on this list.

If you need some help with it I'll be happy to assist.

Take care and enjoy you nifty new toy.

Mike N



--Mike N
-----Original Message-----
From: xsintrk <xsintrk at xsintrk.net>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 3:37 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] (no subject)


>Hello all,
>    I would like to introduce myself to the list. I am a 24 yr old
>network engineer living in St Louis. I have recently (last year)
>become interested in older Sun equipment. My roommate and I currently
>own several SparcClassics, a Sparc1 or two, and the sparc laser
>printer, and some other misc as of yet unidentified parts.
>We run OpenBSD on most of these boxes, and I must say they have taught
>me new levels patience when waiting on programs to load.  Suddenly,
>that PentiumPro 200 doesn't seem so slow :)
>
>   I recently 'won' a 670MP on e-bay sans memory for 76$ (yeah,
>someone is probably laughing right now). I have priced the memory at
>around 130 for 64mb at memoryx.com, and i've seen 4mb parity simms for
>4.99 each at acesales.com. Has anyone delt with either of these
>companies, or have ideas for other parts resources?
>
>   Currently, I am reading through this lists archives, and learning
>alot, and I am impressed by the effort to keep these machines running
>and viable platforms.
>
>*butt-kissing and intro mode off
>
>   I should receive this machine within the next week or so (how much
>does this thing weigh anyways?) and hope to begin the identification
>and rebuild/refurb proccess immediately thereafter. My end goal is to
>run this box as a diskless workstation server/cluster controller along
>side my SparcClassics.  Any and all information about this platform,
>including parts and supplies resources, is more than welcome, either
>on list or off. I hope to learn a lot from everyone here in the near
>future, and then to become an active participant.
>
>Thanks for reading, and thank you for this list. :)
>
>-Martin Wedel
> webmaster, XsinTRK.net
>
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