[SPARCbook] SPARCbook and ThinkPad for sale
Jonathan Eisch
sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Wed Jan 31 15:58:18 CST 2001
Hi All,
It has come time for me to sell my laptops, as I'm moving to Macintosh as a
desktop OS (specifically OS X. What can I say? I used NeXTstep and fell in
love) the first is a SPARC and the second is an interesting little
workhorse.
Both are very well cared for and have traveled very little.
Sparcbook 3gx:
110Mhz microsparc II
64mb ram
2 batteries,
car adapter
AC adapter
floppy drive
2 1.2gb hard drives
170mb PCMCIA type III hard drive
tadpole leather carrying case
parallel adapter
10base T transceiver
transceiver cable
Microspeed trackball.
33.6 US Robotics PCMCIA modem (Solaris compatible)
built in ISDN
IBM ThinkPad 760XD
Pentium 166mmx
32mb ram
12" TFT 1024 x 768 display, 16bit colour
Hardware based MPEG.
composite video in and out (yes, I do have the hard to find adapter
cable
3gb hard drive
internal cdrom,
internal floppy
external floppy
almost new lithium-ion battery
CardBus 10/100 network adapter
Cardbus USB adapter (no extra software needed for win98)
AC adapter
Anyone interested? Make me an offer on one or both. I would prefer Paypal,
but something else can work out too.
It looks like eBay has been getting $800 for 3GS units, not as quick as this
(did I mention 2 hard drives, one for solaris and NetBSD perhaps on the
other? You get to load what you want)
As for the Thinkpad, it's pretty cool, and if I still used windows, there's
no way that I'd be selling it. It does have the composite (and s-video)
cable, so you can go ahead and load win98 on it, and hook it up to your VCR
and capture stuff or play it out to your TV. I've done that a bit, and have
found the quality to be just as good as any $200 converter box you are going
to find. The USB card is quite handy, and doesn't need any extra software
to work with windows 98. IBM has very good support for this laptop, as it
was at the very high end at one point or another. The battery lasts for a
good hour or so of hard pounding, longer if you are just doing something in
Word. Looks like eBay is getting $400+, but my little sister may be
extremely unwilling to let it go for even that much, so make her happy too.
As I said, they are both in very good condition.
-Jonathan
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