[SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun

[Ken Hansen]

Well, the thrill of watching X windows draw screens in minimal, at best...

And there comes a point where you get tired of adding electrical circuits to
your server room/basement to power the beasties...

Granted, they may well be the best sub $50 server out there, but if you can
afford greater than $50 for your server, that would be money well spent.

And there is zero geek appeal in showing your friends the SS/2 you salvaged
from the heap, cause the first thing they are bound to say is "Why is it so
slow, I thought workstations were fast?"

Of course, donating the machine to folks with more time than money is a nice
gesture - get one more generation of use out of the box before it hits the
landfill.

When you can get replacement bases for *half* the price of a new NVRAM chip
to revive an old box, it may be time to reconsider the idea of repairing the
box vs. replacing it...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun


> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:31:00AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > And finally, the $64K question - "How hard are you going to work to get
a
> > Sun4c system up?" What would it mean if they never booted again???
>
> I find it kinda sad that even I have almost that viewpoint today - unless
> special/rare/etc, I wont collect anything under Ultra-1 level these days,
> unless its a nice SS10 or SS20, or like the Sun-2 I've got (and need to
> fire up one of these days).  SS1s and 2s are nice and such, but if I got
> a truckload of them today, i'd just pile them up in the garage.. I wont
> throw them out, but I wont dedicate a ton of time into dealing with them,
> either...
>
> On the other hand, you have kids out there who would KILL for this kinda
> stuff to play with.. like I used to be. *sniff*