--- Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp910.monmouth.com> wrote:
> > The next rung up on the ladder is a SPARC5 70Mhz. Those are nearly at
> > "haul them away" status...
>
> Well, If I ever find an LX or Classic or Sparc5 at haul it away
> prices I'll laugh all the way home to my CD collection.
My only "haul-it-away" LX died. I replaced it with a Classic I got from
Ohio State surplus when they had a pallet of them earlier this year (no, I
didn't buy the entire pallet, just a couple). They were diskless, had 16Mb
of RAM (4 x 4Mb), password locked and booted off the network. I was able to
turn my box into a diskless server off of the CD-ROM drive and get the Classics
to a root prompt and clear the password with the eeprom command.
> I've been unable to find them cheap enough around here. (NJ)
> My department still ran Sparc5's and 20's at Lucent last year.
I found out that a my old Lucent cube, they just turned off my SPARC5/110
and moved it last week. I left in March, 1999. Nobody ever took my place
when my contract ran out.
I'm waiting until I can find a usable SPARC5 under $300 (monitor not included -
I got a 20E20 from OSU surplus for $20 and a 17Esomething for $15! - stuff
with 13W3 connectors goes cheap) I passed a fellow at Dayton with a pair
of SPARC5/80s with unknown amounts of RAM and disk; he paid under $200 for
both. That's the kind of deal I'm looking for. I already have the skinny
CD-ROM drive. I have one in my Bomac tower on my Amiga 2000 I use to test
GG2 Bus+ boards. Works great on an A2091, and fits in the last open space
on the front of the tower.
-ethan
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Received on Fri Jul 13 2001 - 13:15:31 BST