[rescue] What to do with old Sun h/w?

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On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 01:53:32PM -0400, Mike Loewen wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Earl Baugh wrote:
> 
> >I rarely see any "older" Sun (esp Sun 3) gear available... either here or
> >on other lists.
> >I'd personally be interested in it, at worst to at least snag boards (where
> >and when I could) if that was the case.
> >I'd love a couple more Sun 3 kbds.  I'm seeing less and less Sun 10 and
> >earlier boxes, but still see/hear of IPC/IPX type stuff somewhat
> >occasionally.
> >
> >The question for me is more how much and what I am going to keep in the
> >collection.    Unless I can convince my wife to turn the basement into a
> >computer shrine, :-)  I'm getting close to the limit.
> 
>    Fortunately for me, the pizza box and lunch box workstations
> don't take up a lot of space, and most of them are connected to a
> KVM switch.
> 
>    I did manage to get special dispensation to keep an IBM 129
> keypunch downstairs in the music studio.  :-)

Man, oh man. That's the right place for it. The sound of somebody who knows
what she's doing spitting out cards on one of those is music to my ears. 
It's right up there with a 1403 with the hood up. 

I miss those days!

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