[rescue] SparcStation 370 and 470 for Free (Northern Virginia)

[Dave McGuire]

On Jan 13, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Kevin Loch wrote:
>> These two machines are sitting at the corner of Lee Highway and
>> Hartland Road in Fairfax, VA.  Both seem to have one system board,
>> and one seems to have a framebuffer, and possibly a VME diagnostic
>> board.
>> I know no info about them, a friend found them sitting there and
>> told me.
>
> Amazingly the nvrams in both were working.  The 3rd party memory board
> on the 4/400 is 128m!  The 4/300 had 32m of simms onboard.
> The p4 framebuffer was indeed a cg6.
>
> They both work great.  I'm typing this on the 4/470.
> Now I only need a 4/200 board to be 4/x00 complete.
>
> Netscape 4.03 is very fast, 4.61 is not too bad either
> on this machine.

   I am really, really glad to hear that you rescued those machines.  
That was just a short ride from where I used to live, but 1000 miles 
away from where I am now, and I was kinda stressing about them sitting 
out there on the side of the road.

   Thanks for grabbing them, man.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire                      "My tummy hurts now, but my soul
St. Petersburg, FL                 feels a little better."     -Ed