[SPARCbook] sparc 3gx

[J L Alexander]

If you live outside the cont. U.S., whatever shipping would be, however you 
want it shipped.   If no one buys it all in one piece in the next week or 
two, I will gladly piece it out if you just need a cable or something.

Thanks.
-Jason

On Thursday 21 July 2005 00:08, J L Alexander wrote:
> I have a sparcbook 3gx I would like to get rid of, maybe 50$+10$ shipping
> and you can have it - good parts machine. (price OBO)
>
> Only three things wrong with it:
> won't boot due to 0c0 error code indicating a corrupt bootprom (major
> issue) battery cover switch doesn't work, broken and rubber feet missing
> (minor issue)
> battery doesn't last long and was never very good for me.  I had two but
> tried to rebuild one and never got it put back together.  One was never
> taken apart.
>
> I did some work on the 0c0 issue in 2002 and I haven't seen anyone with an
> easy fix for the issue.  It could be that there is a hardware failure, but
> I tested out the individual pieces and even without memory or a harddrive,
> it behaves the same.   In other words, the parts are more valuable than the
> box.
>
> Details:
> *scsi floppy + cable
> *170mb pcmcia drive with case
> *power cable
> *1.2gb internal scsi hard drive (solaris 2.6 on it I believe)
> *32 mb ram, I believe
> *pcmcia network card that worked with it
> *modem that came with it...never tried to use it
> *transceiver/cable for built-in network card to convert to rj45
> *big fat leather case (which is in good shape except for the handle..it
> broke,so I used a belt in it's place)
> *The screen is good and had no bad pixels when I used it two years ago.
>
> I think that's it.   If any of you guys are still using a 3gx and your 3gx
> boots, then you might be able to use the parts.
>
> I am on the 'digest', so email me at jalex at pobox dot com for quicker
> response.   I check email in the evenings, weekdays.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jason