[rescue] Re: Sun 20 cases being thrown away in Florida

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 05:05 PM, Robert Novak wrote:
> Go get 'em then.
>
> I can't help thinking that at some point, some things aren't worth 
> saving.
> OR at least not worth going out of your way to save. I wouldn't drive 
> an
> hour to save a pile of empty sun4m systems, unless I knew someone who
> needed them at the time.
>
> No reason to threaten or whine at the guy just because he's getting 
> rid of
> something you can probably find THOUSANDS of elsewhere. If he were 
> junking
> an i486 or a Sun 1, sure. But is anybody running SHORT on ss20 chassis?

   I'd certainly rescue a handful.  They're quite useful, as long as you 
don't run Solaris on them.  With NetBSD/sparc doing SMP quite nicely 
nowadays, they're that much MORE useful.

        -Dave

--
Dave McGuire             "I've grown hair again, just
St. Petersburg, FL           for the occasion."       -Doc Shipley