[rescue] Ultra SPARC purchase

[Steve Sandau]

> >>   I wouldn't bother with the Ultra5 or Ultra10...they work, but 
> >> they're
> >> not what I'd call great machines.  I'd avoid them.  The Ultra30 is *by
> >> far* a better choice, and not much more expensive these days.
> >
> > Hey now, the machine that serves these lists is a lowly
> > U5/333 (2M L2 cache) with an 80G IDE drive (with 8M cache).
> >
> > 8-)
> 
>    I didn't say the machine was incapable of performing work, I just 
> said they're not very nice machines compared to Sun's other models.
> 
And it appears, especially from recent discussions here, that running a browser and a GUI email client may require more of a machine than server-type duties. I have 75MHz linux boxes that to DNS, NTP, backup email, and so on, but I wouldn't want to run X and netscape on them!

I've found some U30s on eBay and elsewhere. Looks like $300 or so for an entry-level config. They use SCA drives?

Steve