[PLUG] Old Suns

[Alex]

Thanks for the help!

Pat Finnegan wrote:

> Now that you mention it, they did have a few IPC's down at salvage.
>
> -- Pat
>
> I didn't like the play, but I saw it under adverse conditions.  The curtain
> was up.
>    - fortune(5)
>
> Charles Fultz wrote:
>
> > Pat Finnegan <finnegpt@purdue.edu> writes:
> >
> > > That's OK if you just want a SS1.  When I went in December that's all they
> > > had.  However, there was talk of them getting some SS5's (SS==Sparc
> > > Station).  However the SS1 i got was $25 for the computer, a kb and a mouse.
> > > For a computer slower than piss, that isn't too bad.  For a sun monitor, they
> > >
> > > will ream you, comparitively. ($70 for a used 17" is all they had).  I went
> > > to CDW.com and bought a 13W3->VGA adaptor box for $23, a much better price
> > > (and I get to use my 19" monitor with it now...).
> >
> > For the love of God, don't buy a SPARCstation 1 or 2!
> > You'd be far, _FAR_ better off buying an IPC, IPX, CLASSIC, or LX.
> > And they're smaller to boot.
> >
> > I'd suggest going to eBay and seeing what they have there.
> > There are several other places on the Net that you can find old SPARC
> > hardware.   Just do a Google search.
> >
> > Charles Fultz
> > fultz
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