Sparc at home

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Fri Jul 13 12:07:44 2001

>I wouldn't mind a SS20 at haul-away prices, even without CPUs.
>I've got a bunch of CPUs, just no box to put them in.

The SS20 chassis themselves can be found in the $100-200 range, not to bad,
it's when you start adding the rest of the parts they get expensive. I got
"lucky" for $150 I got the chassis, 2 SM71's, and the internal CD-ROM.
Plus I already had a good stash of S-Bus cards, and a couple drive brackets
(from my SS5/70). So I only really had to add RAM, and I already had 16MB
so I could test it.

>How expensive is a CPU-less Sparc Ultra? I can get a cheap
>360u CPU if I can get a cheap system without CPU.

What chassis? An Ultra 2 Chassis still goes for big bucks. Me, I need an
Ultra 2 case and CPU's, I've got a Motherboard with a dead Ethernet
connection. I'd love a nice loaded Ultra 2, that would make a *really*
nice home UNIX box!

                        Zane
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