[SunRescue] Sun Rescue Newbie

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 6 22:25:23 CST 2000


On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:00:43PM -0800, Chris Byrne wrote:
> I recently purchased a Sun Ultra 1 170 with 128mb of RAM, TGX graphics, and
> 2 gig hard drive on Ebay for about $350 as a testing machine. I have been
> working with Sun equipment for some time but have no specific experience
> with the Ultra 1. What I'm looking for is any advice on the machine,
> especially with an eye towards a cost effective update for the video, and
> any tricks or gotchas.

If its not a 170E (just a plain 170), you're stuck with what you've got.
If you need better graphics, you can always run it headless and use
a  PC with a 24-bit card as an X terminal...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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