[rescue] Ultra SPARC purchase

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> 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-)

Yeah, but if you were looking for a machine to fill this need today, is
this what you would choose given the current market? A nice U2 system
can be gotten for under $300 with minimal effort on ebay.


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976