[rescue] where have all the Sun monitors gone?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 03:49:02 CDT 2007


velocityengine at gmail.com wrote:
> On 6/25/07, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:05:18PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
>>> I just dumped a 21" Sun monitor in south London because I couldn't
>>> convince anybody to haul it away.
>> We discarded around 50 19"-21" workstation tubes (SGI, Sun) about a year
>> ago because nobody wanted them and everyone had LCDs.  A year and a half
>> before that, we threw out at least that many in the Austin office for the
>> same reason, after selling the best of the lot at an employee auction.
>>
>> Monitors that I would have given body parts for, five years ago, are now
>> not worth my time and effort.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Cripes, I wish more of you guys lived near Milwaukee. I have such a drought
> of decent / free / cheap hardware here it's embarassing. I'd love to have
> more 21" + monitors or the $5 UltraSparcs everyone else seems to have access
> to.

Milwaukee?  There's no dearth of stuff there.  Just drive to Chicago.

Peace...  Sridhar



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