[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

[Bill Bradford]

I'm looking for a way to rackmount an E4500 in a single rack (not a cabinet)
as well.  There's always www.sharkrack.com, but they're expensive...

BTW, if you have the monitor and keyboards at the remote location, the
VT200 wont be a true console - it will just be a terminal hanging off a
serial port.  

Bill

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:20:50PM -0700, ds wrote:
> We have two E3500's that are used within a production surrounding where
> people are shuffling around them everyday.  I would like to see them in
> a rack, up off the floor and out of the way (possibly in the air
> conditioned, fire protected computer room about 30' away).  Currently we
> straddle them down on the floor under a table when we need to use them
> (what a way to treat a couple 3500's).
> Since Sun's rack config starts at $7,500 dollars... I was thinking of
> purchasing a PC rack to place it in.  We use Compaq 19" racks ($2,500)
> for all our PC servers (we have a total of about 12 Compaq racks in
> toll).  My thought would be to purchase the floor kits for the E3500's
> ($100 ea.) and then place them on four way mounted shelves in the lower
> portion of the Compaq rack.  Since we need the monitor and keyboards at
> a remote location (about 40' away) we could purchase the 10m
> keyboard/monitor expansion kit ($75 ea.).  Then place a cheap 220
> terminal in the rack as a console for both units... total cost... about
> $3,300 w/tax (I said about).
> Any thoughts?

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