Sparc at home

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Fri Jul 13 20:28:15 2001

will an ultra 2 mainboard fit in an ultra 1 chassis?

At 10:07 AM 7/13/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >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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