Sun3 valuations?

On 1/21/2018 2:47 PM, Kevin Bowling via cctalk wrote: Kevin, I've got a 3/260 which was formerly owned by Rockwell here in Orange County, CA.? I got it from storage of a friend who was reducing clutter at a site so can't help with valuation. It is the deskside unit which will be the Sun VME and VME adapter card they used equipped.? I've not opened it, but it may be a bit rangy. I don't have any of the disk bricks, and am hoping that some fiddling will allow me to run something more modern than the sun scsi bricks if I do run them.? Not sure what you have.? This is the deskside unit, and I'm not sure if they had hard drives integrated. My system uses QIC tapes, and I've got some tape which were in the pile, but have low expectations any of them are good.? Storage was not optimized, and even with that QIC is seldom useful at this point.? Best hope will be recovery if I need to to boot the system. I thin the 4x systems were supposed to have the Sparc first run processor, and the 3/xxx were to have 68000.? People could mix and match as could Sun.? I've owned and have running but long ago sold a 4/280 and had a couple of 3/280s, so have some experience. The 4/280 had Fuji SMD drives and were nice, but horrible power hogs, so I sold them off as they were large and I couldn't afford to run and maintain them.?? I'm curious where you are located, as my interest in this project is low, and you'd be welcome to try your project with anything I've got if you are going to restore them. Contact me off list if you wish to discuss more. thanks Jim