[SunRescue] RE: $5 SS/2s

[Gil Young]

Wel, I ran a 1000 node company off of a single SS2 once :)!  Hehe, i really 
almost did, anyway, I would not pay more than $5-10 today for a SS2 of 
unknown shape bare, that is if I were buying SS2's, which I wouldn't, 
unless it was fully loaded with memory and had two working 4 gig internal 
drives (So I can mirror them), then I would pay about $40-50 and use it as 
a backup DNS server only if I needed a backup DNS server at the time.

Otherwise, a SS4 would be my current bare minimum purchase, a year from now 
an U5 will be my bare minimum, then a U1.

Gil

At 12:06 PM 5/21/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, I am being retorical, but if you want to consider the real cost of a 
>replacement NVRAM, it is the cost of the chip, the S/H to get it (or the 
>gas/time to pick it up), and the downtime waiting. Oh, and make sure you 
>get just the right speed, there have been some problems with faster than 
>expected chips, IIRC.
>
>So, take all that, and you are *approaching* a $20 repair, with $0 charge 
>for installation, IMHO.
>
>Now, SS/2, IPX, etc... systems have a value of somewhere between $0 and 
>$20 without RAM, HD, etc. While half the price was an exageration, the 
>*spirit* of the statement stands.
>
>The value of an SS/2 (in real folding money) is inversely proportional to 
>the buyers amount of experience with these boxes, IMHO. I believe Dave 
>McGuire quoted tham as being about $30-40 w/RAM, HD, etc. a while ago.
>
>How much money would you pull out of your wallet for an SS/2? (again, 
>retorical, please don't bombard the maillist with SS/2 war stories)...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ken
>
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>Message: 13
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:02:00 -0400 (EDT)
>From: linc <linc at thelinuxlink.net>
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
> >
> > 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
>
>You can replace a sparc 2 base for $5?  Where?  I want some!  Mouser sells
>replacement NVRams for $12 a piece.
>
>-Linc.
>
>--
>  10:00am  up 32 days, 21:58,  4 users,  load average: 1.79, 2.38, 2.43
>
>
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>Message: 14
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:13:27 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Dan Debertin <airboss at nodewarrior.org>
>To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>On Mon, 21 May 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
> > 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...
>
>That's sad. I find sun4u stuff kind of boring ;). Although I find sun4c to
>be mostly too slow to use, and won't buy it anymore, sun4m stuff is still
>fun to play with. Completely usable, and quite cheap these days.
>
>Dan
>--
>Dan Debertin
>airboss at nodewarrior.org
>www.nodewarrior.org
>
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>Message: 15
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 09:16:42 -0500
>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunRescue] SparcStation Voyager Serial Port Strangeness
>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
>On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:30:44AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   KICK ASS!! 8-)
>
>It was a true Beavis and Butt-Head Moment.
>
>Bill
>
>--
>Bill Bradford
>mrbill at mrbill.net
>Austin, TX
>
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