[SunRescue] Ebay Ultra 2 (I've lost my mind!)

[Ken Hansen]

Robert,

I feel you paid aboutt he right price - I recently sold someone on this list
an Ultra 2 w/2 200 MHz CPUs and 2x internal 4 Gig HDs for $700, then $150
for the 256 Meg of RAM, or $850 total, plus S/H (Get well soon Pete!). We
were both happy with that price.

Owners of Ultra 2's value them mote than potential buyers, I suspect, so
every once in a while a deal slips through - I think your price is fine.

My advice would be to snap up a second CPU, as they are about $100 at
anysystem.com, that is what I did, it is a real low-cost performance
booster. Upgrading to dual 300 MHz CPUs is expensive, relative to the price
you paid for the base system, IMHO. (But performance is much better with
dual 300 MHz CPUs ;^)

I will email you off-list regarding a possible trade for your unwatned
bits...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Rose" <rr at rits.com.au>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 12:25 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] Ebay Ultra 2


> Hi rescuers,
>
> I just won an Ultra 2 on Ebay (item #1237613645) for what I thought was a
> good price.  I was expecting to get sniped as I didn't bid much over the
> eventual win price but now I'm a bit worried because I didn't.
>
> Question 1: Am I really a fool and paid far too much, or is this some
> higher being's revenge for the cheap HP D-Class box I got a few weeks ago?
>
> Question 2: Is anyone interested in swapping me stuff for the Creator 3D
> and the Wide Diff SCSI cards out of it?  I'm not going to be needing them,
> so I might as well trade them for something more useful.
>
> Question 3: Any gotchas for getting Solaris 8 to install and run 64bit on
> this box?
>
> That's about all for now, I'll probably poke my head up again with more
> questions like this once the box has been paid for and has travelled
> half-way around the globe to me.