[rescue] Ultra SPARC purchase

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure i'd discount the 200mhz UltraSparc I's.  The price is
> definitely right.  i missed the end of an auction that had a 200mhz
> module for an ultra go go for less than $5. 

I can't account for that price - had I seen it, I would have snapped it
up, barring exceptional S/H charges. And I hav no use for it
(presently)
 
> Can anyone tell me why it is that those modules are so much cheaper
> than the UltraSparc II's?

I think every 200 MHz CPU on ebay is a leftover from a 300 MHz upgrade.
Very few people have suitable boards without a CPU at least as fast as
one of these.

I bought one to go with a cheap U2 that came with one already
installed. A very nice box... Very nice!


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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