[rescue] Anyone want a 670MP?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, David Rouse wrote:

> We've just got in a Sun Fire V100 to replace our ten-year-old (?) Sun
> 670 MP. Please no flames about SCSI v. IDE -- my low-rpm ide laptop
> outperforms this thing.
>
> The 670 has 128 MB of RAM, two of those ill-regarded ROSS CPU modules, a
> framebuffer of some kind (never used, I can't remember what it is, and
> for some reason dmesg is garbled), two 1.3 Gig internal disks, and an
> internal CD-ROM.
>
> <bodoman>Quad CPU Power!</bodoman>
>
> With it we can throw in boxed 2.5.1 Server CDs and manuals, the hardware
> manual, a never-used type 4 keyboard, a never-used optical mouse with
> never-used grid mouse pad and misc. cables (not all of these are
> never-used). I'd rather give the misc stuff with the 670 MP, perhaps as
> an incentive for someone to pick it up.
>
> The server and internals (less the framebuffer, it has never been test)
> are known to be working, I can't speak to misc and never-used stuff.
> Before you pick it up I'll do a fresh re-install of 2.5.1 and maybe even
> download the patches.
>
> We aren't trying to sell it -- we would want someone to come by our
> offices (eastern North Carolina) and haul the thing away. This isn't
> something that needs to happen right away (I haven't setup the new
> server yet). If no one can pick it up we will power it down and use it
> as a computer-room table until someone does take it away.
>
> I'll miss the old beast, but we are starting to ask of it more than it
> can provide.

I want it.

Peace...   Sridhar