I seem to remember it has a 20mhz Sparc CPU, so more like a Sparc 1. But this is a quibble. It fits in a 'shoebox' style case, supports up to two banks of 30 pin SIMMS, can fit one 3 1/2" hard disk and one 3 1/2" floppy, and has one sbus slot (I think?), and a builtin bwtwo. It's a sloooow computer and most definately not worth $175 base. I've seen them at the MIT flea for between $50 and $75 for *just* the base. CDROM Drive??? No way. Suns don't take normal SCSI CDRom drives, they want drives which support 512kb/sector(1). That's not to say they are terribly expensive, just a little difficult to come by. Old Hitachi tube HM-4119A monitors seem to be going for about $100 around here, though. That's the old 19" tube fixed freq monitors from around 1988-1990 (Maybe earlier?). A good Sony GDM20D10 20" might run you about $500 used. This is a *nice* monitor, however. The Sony GDM16A15's I've seen for as little as $200, and for a 16" monitor it's very sweet (at least as good as your average 17" commercial grade PC monitor, maybe better if you can deal with a fixed freq monitor on a PC. I think that's asking for more than the $175 is worth. I'd guess a IPC W/ 16MB RAM, Type 4 keyboard, mouse, 404MB hard drive, CGThree (color) frame buffer, and a Hitachi tube monitor would go for about $300. Make sure you get the cables, especially the 13W3 -> 4BNC or 13W3 to 13W3. The 13W3 -> 4BNC especially are getting harder to find, and Sun *doesn't* charge reasonable prices! Good Luck! Maynard (1) http://www.aball.de/~wpv/sun/faq/cdrom.html http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq/