[rescue] 170MHz IPC?

Chris Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Mon Aug 12 22:20:52 CDT 2002


Good eye.  The guy did indeed get them from Millersville.  He's been
really confused trying to figure out what the heck he bought.  Thanks
for the ID.

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:05, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:59:26PM -0400, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > http://www.rubberpaw.com/sparc/
> > 
> > This is the oddest IPC I've ever seen
> > 
> > It has a Sun IPC chassis, but has a 170MHz TurboSPARC in it with 1MB
> > secondary cache.  When it boots you can see it shows SPARCstation 5 (but
> > from the motherboard photos, clearly it is NOT).  Anyone seen this
> > before?
> 
> I'm looking at sparc4.jpg.  Is that I Millersville University property
> tag I see on the front of that machine?  If so, then that was one of the
> machines I worked on most likely.  The school sold a large lot last
> year, and I didn't find out about it until after it was done.  There are
> several words that come to mind to descibe them for doing that (I was
> prepared to purchase the entire lot for a significant amount), but this
> is polite company.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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