[rescue] WTB: Ultra 60/80

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 22:36, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:16:55PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > > $100 for the base, or $100 for the base, 2x450 MHz CPUs and 2 Gig RAM (a 
> > Actually I got the U60 base without video card for $14.99.
> > What I meant to say is, I have seen 450Mhz CPUs go for about $100 each
> > on eBay.
> 
> I've got a maxed-out U60 (2G, 2x450, 2x36G) and from what I've seen its
> only worth $500-600.

prices have sure dropped...

I remembered when I counted myself lucky on my U60 'score'...  I had
been looking to pick a Ultra 2 off of eBay (from Sun's auctions when
they first started to dump Ultra 2 systems on eBay)...I just couldn't
win one in my price range... so I looked at the other auctions Sun
had on eBay and saw this nice U60.... I put in the opening bid of
$2500 (as I recall), and nobody out bid me.  Now... it didn't meet
reserve.... but Sun sold it to me for $2500 anyway...  wasn't I
psyched.... a U60, 21" Trinitron flat screen (the truly and totally
flat one), 18G drive, 1/2 gig memory, 450mhz proc.... 

And I got tha tdeal while people were bidding almost $3000 on a
lesser config'd refurb/leftover ultra 2...

The U60 is still my primary computer.... although I really should
dump more ram in it, get a second processor, move to mirrored hds,
and upgrade from Solaris 8 (torn between going to 9 or to 10).

-- Curt

> 
> Bill