[SPARCbook] Off topic, but not entirely.

[Wes Hofmann]

Steve, 

Please note that I offered this trade because the two machines appear to be of
about equal value based on scouring Ebay's Completed Items Search results for a
number of sparcbook 3gx's with my configuration and an R4400's of your
configuration. (please not also that many of the Indego 2's in that pricerange
include the monitor...)

Thanks
Wes

--- Wes Hofmann <whofmann at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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