--- "r. 'bear' stricklin" <red_at_bears.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
>
> > ...They only made about 600 units of the Sun 1 series though, since
> > they were already developing the Sun 2 series at the time.
>
> Dang, *envy*. I've lusted in my heart after a Sun 1 for a long time. I
> support serious (modern) Sun hardware for a living, and thus Sun history
> is of particular interest...
Me, too. By the time I first touched a Sun in college, the Sun3s were
what they were buying. My personal first was a SPARCstation1 I picked
up for about $800 in 1993 or 1994. Dropped much more than that on RAM
and a 1.8Gb SCSI drive to make it "useful". Through rolling upgrades,
that corner of the room is now occupied by a SPARC5 w/256Mb of RAM
and about 20Gb of SCSI disk that cost much less than any single component
of its ancestor. Ah... progress...
My oldest Sun at the moment is a Sun3/50. I probably won't be able
to top that for a long time.
-ethan
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Received on Mon Jan 14 2002 - 01:00:06 GMT