[SunRescue] Re: Dirt cheap Ultra 2

Bran Tregare rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Feb 25 16:46:14 CST 2001


before getting laid off, we got about a dozen P4 based servers in. every 
one of them went back to the manufacturer :(  they performed worse than P3 
based systems, tended to everheat and shut down... wonderful problems like 
that :(

At 09:25 PM 2/25/01 +0000, you wrote:

>visit www.tomshardware.com for the details, btw.
>also, be very careful with 'supersellers'. they burned me badly once.
>nick at snowman.net writes:
>>Whatever you do don't touch the P4.  Just don't.
>>         Nick
>>On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Gil Young wrote:
>>>WOW, the Sparc 5/170 is a real steal, that is great performance for $290.,
>>>and the 5 was a nice unit.  Man, now I am in a quandry, Used laptop, new P4
>>>mobo or this sparc......
>>>Gil
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: <nick at snowman.net>
>>>To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>>>Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 2:59 PM
>>>Subject: [SunRescue] Dirt cheap Ultra 2
>>> > http://www.supersellers.net/sun1.htm
>>> > They are listing what they claim to be a fairly nice Ultra 2 "factory
>>> > Sealed" for 2500$, which IMHO is a steal.  I hope none of you were trying
>>> > to keep it quiet and buy it in a couple of weeks <Grin>
>>> > Nick
>>> >
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>paul at anastrophe.net
>Senior Unix Systems Administrator
>Syntactically Subversive Services, Inc.
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