[rescue] Prices... Amazing

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at mail.zill.net
Wed Apr 27 20:14:15 CDT 2005


On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:49:03PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> 
> >But anyway, serious workstations that can do a lot of stuff are
> >ridiculously cheap now.
> 
> Probably because so many people and companies are in my position.  I
> have lots of machines I'd love to have gone.  Ultra 2 systems, Indigo2
> systems, a couple of Ultra 1s, a pair of DEC 7000s with external XMI
> cages.  All very cool and very capable equipment, but the Ultra 2s

Is it just me or does the availability of Sun stuff seem to have hit a
wall at 450Mhz CPUs or so?

> Eventually, you just get tired of tripping over the stuff (or are tired
> of paying to house it, if you're a business) and scream "ENOUGH!  GET IT
> GONE!  CHEAP!"

I have a boatload of Ultra2 bases, trying to figure out what to do
with them.

--Patrick



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