[H-GEN] Sun Sparcs

[James McPherson]

Craig Irvine writes:
 > If there is one available for around the $100 then I would like one.
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Frank Brand <fbrand at uq.net.au>
 > To: general at humbug.org.au <general at humbug.org.au>
 > Date: Wednesday, 9 September 1998 16:32
 > Subject: [H-GEN] Sun Sparcs
 > 
 > 
 > >A guy I know has bought 8 to 10 Sun Sparcstation Classic X. They are
 > >quite recent (about 4 years old) and are configured for a network. ie,
 > >they have no FDD and no HDD, 4MB RAM. They are, not very suitable as
 > >stand alone machines as they are very slow unless working off a server
 > >with big grunt. The processor is a microSparc I with 8KB cache. However
 > >they do have nice Sun monitors (Sun calls them 15" I think but maybe
 > >they are 14"). They are very nice clean boxes and monitors and would
 > >make a nice network addition for someone running Sparc. I have not
 > >negotiated availability or price with himm but some systems might be
 > >available for about $100, subject to his own networking requirements.

I managed to pick up a surplus elc yesterday with two spare motherboards ;)
And an aui-utp thingamajig, and I think I can probably get myself a disk for
it as well. Surplus to requirements was the phrase I believe hence my cost was 
merely physical ;)

cheers,
James