[rescue] 670MP

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Wow. I thought they were worth more.

I thought 6 processors was kind of weird.

Maybe I won't be bidding after all. It has NO drives of any kind. At least
behind the top fold down panel. I don't know if they have internal drive
bays (or if they do, if it has any drives).

I did some research and found the list price for the upgrades and it worked
out to about $70k. That's what I call depreciation.

thanks
shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:41 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] 670MP


> So I am looking at 670MP, but I don't know what to bid. I mentioned it
> earlier, but I was told it was a 370.
>
> It has the following cards.
>
> 501-1901	0 MB, expansion memory VME board, [630MP,670MP,690MP]
> 501-1894	motherboard, 64 MB, SM100, [630MP,670MP,690MP]
> 501-1767	64 MB, memory expansion VME board, [670MP]
>
> >From what I have been told, it has 6 SM41 processors (but the 1894 says
> SM100?)in it with 256MB of ram (I don't see how they went from 128 to 256,
> but anyways). It has no drives. I
>
> I took a look at it today and I want it, I just don't know what to bid.
The
> reserve is $200CAN (about $125US), I was thinking of biding between
> $250-300CAN.
>
> I checked eBay, but I don't see any listed right now.
>
> Pictures are at (http://24.66.68.246/670mp.html)
>
> So what do you guys think this is worth?

Well, if it has the usual Sun 1.3g drives in it (maybe a pair of them),
and it only has 128mb of ram, it is probably not worth much over 50
bucks US.  One SM100 is only 2 processors on one card.

IFF it has a cdrom, that is a plus.

My take is still only 50 bucks.  (I paid 5 bucks for mine, with 3
drives, cdrom, 128mb ram.)

If it had decent drives in it (say 3 x 4 gig or so), plus a tape, plus
the cdrom, it might be worth 100 bucks.

Believe me, this thing is a dinosaur.  (But, hey, I run one at home as
my main SunOS 4.1.3.U1 server.  It is SLOW on an SM100 processor.)

With a couple high horsepower processors, it might be different.  But,
it can be a big money sinkhole, otherwise, if you are not careful.

It is a fun toy, though.....  I have a penchant for VME monsters.....
They LOOK and SOUND like a real computer, instead of some whiney sort
of Gatesware toy....just like VAXes, and Crays, etc....(:+}}...

Bob
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