[geeks] valuation on a sparc 2 / ss10?

[Mike Ekholm]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:00:41PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On January 13, Mike Ekholm wrote:
> > Yep. Just wanted to make that clear :-).  I do agree that the X1 is kind
> > of a piece of crap, thats why I invested the extra money for a T1 for my
> > *personal* use at home. (as soon as I get things cleaned up, I will take
> > a pic for the personal datacenter collection).
> 
>   There's nothing crappy about an X1 save for the lack of SCSI.  I
> have one sitting right here, and I have to say it's quite spiffy.

I think they should have at least put a PCI slot in it :-)

it is a good box for the price tho.  A sun server for $1000 is a very good
deal, you have a real hard time finding a 1U x86 server for that price.

 -Mike Ekholm

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