[rescue] Sun Ultra5 emulation, was: more sun2 adventures!

[Richard]

I used to have 2x Sun386i as the legs for a coffee table. Also used a 3/260
and a 4/260 as the ends of a desk that also heated the room....good times

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> On 9 Jan 2019, at 14:48, Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I actually use an Ultra 60 as a stool when I'm playing with my Ultra 80.
> Yep.  Sturdy
>
> Bob
>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 19:39 Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com wrote:
>>
>> On 1/8/19 5:31 PM, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
>>>> Yep, the 10s tend to be rarer and hence more expensive and will I guess
>>>> increase as they become harder to find...
>>>
>>> Why is this the case?  Is there something about the Ultra 10 in
>>> particular that makes them particularly desirable?  Or are they prone to
>>> fail more quickly?  What's behind this proposition?  :-)
>>
>>  The Ultra5 and the Ultra10 are actually both fairly crappy machines,
>> as Sun hardware goes.  Among their worse/cheapest/thinnest sheet metal
>> designs.  I've accidentally crushed an Ultra10 by putting a
>> not-too-heavy box on top of it, whereas fat-ass me can STAND on an
>> Ultra2 or an Ultra60 with no ill effects.
>>
>>          -Dave
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA
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