[H-GEN] Sparc Stations

[Colin Riddel]

Hi All

I just got back from buying 3 of them

I have no idea what software yet, i just got back and havnt set it up
yet
the machines are very clean looking and the monitors are sony
trinitrons, or at least
the three i got are


colin


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert Brockway [SMTP:robert at zen.humbug.org.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 07, 1998 3:09 PM
> To:	Humbug General List
> Subject:	Re: [H-GEN] Sparc Stations
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Peter J. Arnold wrote:
> 
> > > For those of you who may have missed it, there are 40 Sun Sprac
> Stations
> > > for auction tomorrow at Newsteads. They are as follows:-
> > > 
> > > SparcStations 4/40  and were working at the time of
> decommissioning.
> > > 
> > > 8 Mb memory
> > > 207 Mb SCSI HDD
> > > 17 inch colour monitor (I think)
> > > Mouse. mouse mat
> > > Keyboard
> > > 
> > > They are about 1990 vintage by the looks of things (at least the
> > > monitors I looked at were 1989-91 dates from memory).
> > > 
> > > Judging on past prices they might go for around $100 to $200 but
> > > anything can happen at auctions!
> > > 
> > > There also appeared to be some external disk drive units there
> too.
> 
> > For those of you who couldn't make it, about 25 of the 40 IPC's were
> sold (many 
> > after auction). Some went for $175, the later sold ones were about
> $100. 
> > Newsteads will keep selling them after auction until as many as
> possible are 
> > sold. So if you are interested ring'um and bid.
> 
> Do you have the number?  We should all attempt to prevent biding
> against
> one another (forcing the price up).
> 
> Are they running SunOS now?
> 
> I am interrested in the quality (dirty,clean,etc)
> And if they monitor really was 17"
> Cheers,
> 	-Robert
> 
> --Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at zen.humbug.org.au,
> robert at icc.net.au
> 				r.brockway at uq.edu.au
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