Sparc at home

--- Bill Pechter <pechter(a)bg-tc-ppp910.monmouth.com> wrote: My only "haul-it-away" LX died. I replaced it with a Classic I got from Ohio State surplus when they had a pallet of them earlier this year (no, I didn't buy the entire pallet, just a couple). They were diskless, had 16Mb of RAM (4 x 4Mb), password locked and booted off the network. I was able to turn my box into a diskless server off of the CD-ROM drive and get the Classics to a root prompt and clear the password with the eeprom command. I found out that a my old Lucent cube, they just turned off my SPARC5/110 and moved it last week. I left in March, 1999. Nobody ever took my place when my contract ran out. I'm waiting until I can find a usable SPARC5 under $300 (monitor not included - I got a 20E20 from OSU surplus for $20 and a 17Esomething for $15! - stuff with 13W3 connectors goes cheap) I passed a fellow at Dayton with a pair of SPARC5/80s with unknown amounts of RAM and disk; he paid under $200 for both. That's the kind of deal I'm looking for. I already have the skinny CD-ROM drive. I have one in my Bomac tower on my Amiga 2000 I use to test GG2 Bus+ boards. Works great on an A2091, and fits in the last open space on the front of the tower. -ethan ===== Visit "The Seventh Continent" http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/