[rescue] Another Odd Sun System on eBay

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 5/13/02 1:54 PM, James Lockwood at james at foonly.com wrote:

> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:
> 
>>> Here's a SS20 with an Ultra CPU:
>>> 
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2023380036
>>> 
>>> It looks a replacement motherboard, but I guess it could be
>>> an MBUS-UPA adapter card instead.
>>> 
>>> If it is an MBUS-UPA adapter, are they still available?
>> 
>> On a second look, it can't be an adapter as the two SBUS
>> slots that are normally in the middle are completely gone.
>> Is this a third-party upgrade, a Sun upgrade, or a prototype?
> 
> I believe that it's a SparcEngine Ultra 20, normally used in embedded apps
> where the SparcEngine 5/20 would have been used before.  I mentioned them
> here on Rescue a long time ago.  You used to be able to buy them from SME.
> 
> They were never sold in desktop chassis, only bare boards, but the boards
> were designed to fit in the same mounting cradle as the SS5/SS20.
> 
> Ah, here we go:
> 
> SEU20-0B     SPARCengine Ultra 20     LO 8/4/00, LS 2/2/01
> 
> So they stopped production in 2000.
> 
now that is neat.

Mike N