Sparc desktop vs x86 desktop

On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote: Well, lower-end or older systems are easily obtained at prices comparable to that of PeeCee hardware. The only big difference is that you can't find a decent Sun on the side of the road on trash day...PC hardware shows up that way all the time, as long as it's more than about six months old. But if you're patient, or if you have a friend who has a very large quantity of Sun gear (AHEM), you can get good stuff. Yep, ping me off-list. There isn't much stuff I really "need" right now, aside from cash and perhaps some antidepressants, so I'd mainly be interested in stuff that...well, catches my interest. Aside from that, though, I'd like to find some RK05 rack slides and a DEC 3U dark-style blank rack panel, but those are already covered, I think, by people here with whom I need to get back into touch. I'd really like to find an RK11-D, and a VT11 board set (have the VT11 backplane already). And a PDP-8/a. Oh, and a core subsystem for a PDP-11/05, but I don't know which version of the backplane I have. Even lacking that stuff, though, I'm sure we won't have any trouble coming up with a swap deal. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL