[rescue] Trenton Computerfest find (Ultra Enterprize 3000)

[Gary Nichols]

Prices!  Pictures!

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:

> Hey guys!  Did anyone else go the the Trenton NJ computerfest
> this past weekend?  The show seems to have shrunk from it's
> glory days in the past, but there were still a few neat items.
> 
> I managed to acquire an Indigo2 and an Ultra Enterprize 3000
> with 4 250 Mhz cpus and 512 Mb of memory. I haven't powered
> the 3000 up yet, as some of the smaller heatsinks on one of
> the cpu host boards were broken off.  these are the sort
> with pancake-style aluminum coolers that screw into plastic
> clips which attach to the chips.  The clips have broken, and
> as far as SUN is concerned, they are unobtanium.  My interim
> solution is to affix the plastic clips with _very small_ dabs
> of epoxy, and then apply new heatsink compound and screw the
> coolers back in.
> 
> BTW, this system only has the sbus I/O card, so I can't use
> anything other than an sbus video card. I downloaded the manual
> from sun, and it looks like I should probably put the TGX
> card in slots 2 or 3, rather than 1 (since the controller for
> 1 is shared by the onboard enet and scsi controller). Does
> anyone have any experience with the 3000?  Any gotchas I should
> know about?