[SPARCbook] Off topic, but not entirely.

[Wes Hofmann]

Steve, I might consider trading you for the SGI machine.

I bought one of the machines from Herman Miller about a year and a half ago. 
They sold hundreds that all had basically the same configuration. 
Additionally, this one has:

 - It has the 64MB ram upgrade for it (total 64MB).
 - It's got the SCSI->IDE converter so even though it's a scsi based 
   machine, you can put in big ide laptop harddrives.  The drive is presently
   a 2.1 gb drive.
 - It's in pristine shape.
 - It's got a really nice leather case (it may be faux leather, but if so, 
   I can't tell).  Also in near perfect shape.
 - A 240MB flash pcmcia type 3 card
 - A 3C589 Ethernet adapter (plus the built-in one)
 - I can include an external SCSI cdrom drive with it.
 - It has Solaris 2.6 installed with all of the patches from tadpole.

I can give you more detailed information if you'd be interested.  

Thanks,

Wes

--- Steve Conley <tanabi at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Hey folks;
> 
> I've got two machines that I'm trying to sell ... a Sun SPARC 20 which
> I've tried
> to sell to a friend once but got backed out on, and an SGI machine that
> I've put
> on e-bay ... lessie, I think I've reached the magical "4" times  and
> I've been
> crapped out on every time.  Not really sure why, I think I'm just
> cursed; these
> are fine machines.
> 
> Sorry if this is irritating people, but I think this may be of general
> interest
> to UNIX users such as yourselves :-)
> 
> Okay, starting with the SPARC 20, it's a dual 40 MHz SuperSPARC (w/1 meg
> cache)
> with 96 MEG of RAM (2x16 and 1x64).  It features the 8 MEG VSIMM which
> gives it
> 24 bit color through the monitor port on the motherboard.  I have 1 hard
> drive
> sled for it, and I can put the I believe it's 1 or 2 gig hard drive that
> came 
> in the machine origionally in it (or I can put no hard drive in if you
> don't want
> it).  It's got the origional 2x CDROM and floppy drive.  The faceplate
> for the
> floppy drive, and the mounts for the CDROM, are missing -- you can buy
> them
> from www.memoryx.com and when figuring out the asking price I considered
> that
> you would have to buy those parts.
> 
> I'm asking $300 for it.  Price is negotiable.  I may accept trades; I
> have a
> SPARCbook 3Gx w/64 MEG of RAM, 128 M of RAM would be considered in a
> trade.
> Sorry, not interested in any other SPARCbooks 3Gx or below (...newer
> SPARCbook,
> though ... :-) ).  I've also got an Ultra30 as my desktop, and I might
> accept
> trades for Ultra parts.
> 
> 
> The SGI machine is a Silicon Graphics Indigo2 High Impact.  It's an
> R4400 based
> machine, 200MHz processor, with 386M of RAM (maxed out).  It features
> the High Impact
> graphics board with the 4 MEG texture ram extension.  It comes with the
> origional
> 4mm tape drive (2 gig I think) and 4x CDROM.  There's a drive tray for
> the hard drive;
> I can put in the origional 1 gig hard drive if you want it, but if you
> don't I'll
> leave it out (unlike SS20, it takes the SCSI connector that looks like a
> wide IDE
> one ... 50-some pin?  Fah, can't remember, but it's not like the SS20's
> SCA drives :-))
> It features dual SCSI channels; external devices have their own bus
> seperate from
> the internal drives.  It has a 13W3 plug in the back for the monitor and
> also a
> mysterious VGA -looking plug (I've never tried using it); I've been told
> any PC
> multi-sync monitor will work on it if you get an adaptor (I can help you
> find one).
> I'm asking $600 for this machine, though it's negotiable.  I have a 19"
> SGI
> monitor that can go with it for $200 more.  IRIX CDs can be provided
> (Burned
> copies, but they work, unlike some burned IRIX CDs that don't work ...
> sorry, I
> don't have the origionals :-(  But they work so it doesn't matter. :-) )
> 
> 
> Let me know if you're interested, and thanks.
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> Let me kno
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