[SunRescue] need some faster SBUS CPUs in Europe

[Ken Hansen]

I sent a note from home, but Verizon is on day three of an email "problem"...

The Auction of the SS/1000 went from $350-ish to $660 in a matter of 30 minutes, with the price rocketing $200 in the last 2 minutes!

At the end, in about 90 seconds the hit count went from 560 +/- to 960!

The system had 2x SM61s and 2x SM51s, based on my assessment of the pictures.

It had 3x system boards, with many SBUS cards (fast-wide? other?) and 128 Meg RAM.

I was going to buy it to part it out, but lost interest at about $550.

I guess SS/1000 are still popular...

Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hansen [mailto:Ken.Hansen at icti-usa.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] need some faster SBUS CPUs in Europe
> 
> 
> E.L.I. is selling "new" SM81s for $350/each, so market should 
> be about $175 for one, but that seems high based on latest 
> pricing WRT Sun Blade 100.
> 
> I was able to score 2x SM71s (from Europe, go figure!) for 
> $100/each ($200 for both) for my SS/20 in a private sale (via Usenet).
> 
> Have you tried Usenet (comp.sys.sun.*) yet? Ebay? You may be 
> able to snag an SS/20 with one or two "higher-speed" CPUs 
> already installed - SS/20s should be going pretty cheap 
> nowadays... (There wan an SS/1000 on Ebay at $300 last I saw, 
> w/ 4x CPUs (?) and 128 Meg RAM...)
> 
> If you hope to tempt someone into parting with their 2x SM81s 
> you need to give an indication of what you can offer in return, IMHO.
> 
> Note: I do not have any CPUs to swap/sell/whatever, I plan on 
> keeping my 2x SM71s for the forseeable future... (initially 
> by choice, then probably by necessity, as s the market will 
> drive the price so low I would rather not bother to sell 
> them. Like the LX I have in my basement - it probably has a 
> real value of something just north of nil, just south of $25 
> - it is worth more to me as a Solaris 8 compatible beater box 
> than that...)
> 
> Ken
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gregory Leblanc [mailto:gleblanc at cu-portland.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:58 AM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunRescue] need some faster SBUS CPUs in Europe
> > 
> > 
> > Does anybody have some fast SBUS CPUs for 
> sale/trade/partial trade in
> > Europe?  A pal of mine is running a 4x690MP with dual SM41s 
> right now,
> > and we just loaded that machine up (it's hosting ftp.gnome.org, and
> > pumping out about 8MB/sec of traffic).  This pretty much 
> > saturates those
> > two SM41s, so they'd love to get a pair of SM81s, or something along
> > those lines.  Anybody have a line on these?  Thanks,
> > 
> >     Greg
> > 
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