[SPARCbook] 3GS for sale

[Oscar.G.Farah at census.gov]

Oscar.G.Farah at census.gov on 10/17/2000 09:47:15 AM

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I will take it. Send me your email address. I forgot to give you my email
addresses:

ofarah at bellatlantic.net (Home)
oscar.farah at census.gov (Office)

Oscar








Ari Heitner <aheitner at andrew.cmu.edu> on 10/16/2000 10:18:28 PM

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Hi all,

I've got a complete 3GS for sale. One of the first ones Ross Pennington sold --
so its battery is probably in better shape than average (could probably stand
to be cycled a few times since it's been sitting unused for a few months).

I used this machine all through last year. It's still running solaris 2.5 (too
lazy to upgrade) but it's got gcc/g++ 2.95, Verilog (a limited version, I can't
afford a real compiler), Java, SML, and probably some other toys. Pretty much
all the development projects I had I hacked on this machine at one point or
another -- it was so useful running Solaris, I wasn't willing to play with
NetBSD or Linux. I even put a new trackpoint (erasor, rat, clit, whatever) on
it :)

I wouldn't be getting rid of it except for the fact that my corporate masters
at IBM gave me a new Intel laptop, which doesn't have nearly as much geek value
(and isn't made of magnesium :( ) but gets the job done. I really can't justify
two laptops.

I'm sad to see it go, so I'd rather sell it to one of you guys than have to
post it on EBay. I'm looking for $200 or so + shipping (if you really talk me
into your desparate need i'd probably even go down a bit from there).

Just to be obsessive, it's got
- 1.2gig hdd (the original, never understood why anyone would need more)
- 32mb ram
- floppy drive (never used that one)
- 26pin to 15pin AUI cable (that hard to find little bastard)
- pcmcia 28.8 modem.

i'll even throw in a transceiver if you want.

No case, sorry. And I gave my friend the pcmcia-typeIII 180meg hdd, so i don't
have that either. But other than that, it's all the original stuff I got from
Ross.

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Ari Heitner