19 Aug
2011
19 Aug
'11
1:49 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" >
There are lots of Suns and Sun owners around here
(Central Ohio). I
get offered lesser machines (SS10s and SS20s seem to be popular to
ditch right now) several times a year. Nobody local has yet asked to
have hauled away anything in the U30 and up range.
-ethan
Most of those old SUNs have oddball dead batteries people don't feel like
spending money to replace. SUNs don't seem that popular here in NE Ohio, the
few I have seen were in the process of getting recycled. Sparc equipment on
eBay seems to have gone up in price with fewer items being offered (not
worth shipping, not that many collectors maybe?).
I have an ultra 5 with 512MB (333 model)and the correct SCSI card with a
36GB 10K drive , seems ok for the little I did with it (Solaris 8/ Debian
SPARC). A while ago I tried to boot it and found the battery had died, did
the coin cell hack but never did get the network address setup again to use
it.