[SunRescue] SPARCBook 3GX for sale

BillBradfordmrbill at mrbill.net BillBradfordmrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Sep 9 20:35:59 CDT 2000


On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:51:43PM -0500, Reagen Ward wrote:
> A guy named Ross Pennington (I think) bought a few pallets full of SPARCBooks on
> the cheap, and sold them on the cheap.  3GX boxes went for $400 (with 32MB and
> about half an install of 2.5.1 usually) and lower-end boxes went cheaper.
> Pretty much made old SPARCBooks affordable for a while.

Actually, what he was selling was the SPARCbooks formerly used by the
Herman Miller furniture company's sales force - Ross worked/works for
HM.  I bought one of them back when he was charging $1k.  ow.

Bill

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