[rescue] Trenton Computerfest find (Ultra Enterprize 3000)

[Corda Albert J DLVA]

I paid $400 for it (the UE 3000).  I don't know if this was
a good deal or not, since I'm not familiar (yet) with the 3000.
This was a purchase borne of the exuberance and excitement of
a large computerfest. Very often, I've been lucky in my
impulsive buys... but every once in a while I screw up, too. 
The seller started at $1500, which I felt was excessive, and
dropped down to $750 later in the show.  I talked with him a
while, and we settled at $400. He really didn't know what he
had (nor did I... I'm quite familiar with the Ultra2, 30, 60
etc. but not these critters) and decided that a bird in the
hand (my offer) was worth more than a potentially higher
sale later on.

I'll provide a picture when I get a chance... physically, it
is in excellent shape... no broken or cracked plastic, no scrapes
or dings. came with a couple of hard disks, but no sbus cards.

I'll try powering it up tonight...

-al-
-acorda at 1bigred.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Nichols [mailto:gary at linuxforce.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:34 PM
> To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Trenton Computerfest find (Ultra 
> Enterprize 3000)
> 
> 
> 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?
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