6 May
2001
6 May
'01
4:09 p.m.
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Zane H. Healy wrote:
[someone else [who?] wrote:]
>BTW the Sparc-20's were going for $400
complete. I have them in the lab
>(at work) so I had no interest in them.
Any idea you know what CPUs these had in them, such as the faster
aftermarket replacements? The US$400 price seems rather high, given
that I paid US$75 for a SparcServer 1000 with three CPUs, 768MB of RAM,
four hard drives, a CD-ROM drive and a 4mm internal tape drive at the
last hamfest... the seller wanted US$100 for it, but I managed to get
the price down to a slightly more reasonable level. :-)
reasonable price. I'm even seeing nice dual
processor Ultra 2's for under
$2000. If the Sparc 20's were going for $400, then they'd better have
either good processors or a monitor included.
Yes... I've seen Sparc 20's with slowish processors and about 32MB of
RAM and a 2GB drive selling for under US$50.
Of course extra pieces might cost a pretty penny,
though I did just pick up
some dirt cheap 32MB DIMM's that should work in my Sparc 20 on eBay. What
I'd really like to find is a 8MB VSIMM for it, and that costs more than I
want to spend. The 100Mbit S-Bus boards will also cost you. Then there is
the price of a mounting bracket for HD's, I ended up using a piece of thick
cardboard yesterday for a Sparc 5 I'm playing with!
Hmmm... you can get some cheap sheet-metal from places that sell
heating and air-conditioning equipment. A few years ago, back around
1980, one of them even bent the metal for me to form a cover for a
sound sythesizer switch panel. An added bounus: the metal was
galvanized, so I never had to paint it. :-)
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