12 Oct
2002
12 Oct
'02
11:50 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Okay, I'll explain that to the present owner. I looked at e-greed and
they were commanding <$10. This one may have another frame buffer card,
as there are two of those 13W3 connectors on the back.
Gary HIldebrand
St. Joseph, MO
IIRC, IPCs had
mono onboard video.
Yes. A BW2 frame buffer. CG3s (basic Sun video) and CG6s (mildly
accelerated) are inexpensive to free. They are both 8-bit. You
probably don't want to deal with 24-bit graphics on hardware that old.
It's slow as molasses in January, but it does exist.
If the IPC was free and you had a burning desire to play with a SPARC,
by all means go for it. For people who want to learn Solaris (friends
who are looking to enhance their career opportunities), I'm recommending
OT hardware - SPARC5, Ultra 1/170e, etc. To put prices into perspective,
I picked up an as-is SPARC 5/110 at Dayton for $40, with 3 x 32MB (the
cheap bastards), 5 x 8MB, no disk, drive sled, 100BaseTX/Wide SCSI
and a dead PSU. Obviously, I paid too much, but I did get a couple of
$10 DIMMs, a sled, a 100BaseTX card, and a spare motherboard for my
troubles. I would not pay anywhere near half that for sun4c hardware.
-ethan