[SunRescue] Can someone tell me what I just bought please?

[Martin Wedel sr]

Yes it's a sun4m-class box. It's a fun machine to dink around
with. I've run Redhat on mine (no VME support) while I waited for a cheap
copy of Solaris 2.5.1, and up until recently, used it as a boot server for
several IPCs and Classics. Not terribly fast (depends a LOT on the mbus
modules ) but it can tote a load. If you have the notorius SM-100 cypress
proc, do yourself as favour and yank it out and put in at least an
SM41. The SM100 was a very slow module and I believe limited you to older
versions of SunOS.

Hopefully you don't have too far to ship it, mine cost around 225 to ship
from San Diego to St Louis.  Noisy power-guzzler but a cool conversation
piece. I hope you are single or have a very understanding 'significant
other'.
Let me know when you get it, I'd like to know how it turns out. Get
the part numbers off of the processor module(s) and cards and hit the Sun
Hardware Reference on this site.

I have a few pics of mine at the URLs below.
--
Martin Wedel
sun at minor-element.net
http://www.minor-element.net/
http://www.minor-element.net/670/



On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 fernande at internet1.net wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I know very little about Sun equipment, but want to learn.  I have been
> reading bit of the Sun Rescue list for awhile now.  I have posted once
> before...maybe.
> 
> I have wanted a Sun computer, and have been looking on Ebay....
> dangerous I know.  I am sort of partial to big computers, so I bid on
> what I believe to be a 670mp. Thats a Sun 4 something right?
> 
> Here is the url, can someplease tell me what I just bought, and if I am
> getting my moneys worth?  The "1247" sort of confuses me.  I haven't
> noticed this designation before.
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=433014828
> 
> I should have posted before bidding I suppose.  Especially since they
> didn't answer my email about shipping.  What do these things weigh?
> 
> Any info will be appreciated!  Thanks.
> 
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
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