[rescue] 670MP

[Kevin Loch]

I don't have a picture of an SM100 handy but I think they
have six chips/heatsinks on them, but only two processors.
Despite the name, they run at 40MHz and feel like 16MHz.

If you assume that he saw six chips and interpreted that
as six cpu's, then it has one SM100, or no CPU's if you
count the SM100 as a rounding error.

KL

Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 
> 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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