From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Aug 12 13:54:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C70714CFD for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gh046171@post.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from post.rwth-aachen.de (s4m229.dialup.RWTH-Aachen.DE) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.1-12 #D3869) with ESMTP id <01JEP3HS6LEI000AAT@mail.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:54:12 +0200 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:53:10 +0200 From: Gerald Heinig Subject: Re: Where can I get a Sparc machine To: silent_world@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de Message-id: <37B33436.7BAAC280@post.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Institute of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <19990812165101.43900.qmail@hotmail.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Wilson wrote: > I'm interested in trying to help some with the port (and learning how to do > things in the process), but I would need to pick up an inexpensive Sparc > based computer. I'm looking at buying or finding a sun4m machine, like a > sparcstation 5, but i have no idea where to find one. I've looked on eBay, > and that is not exactly the best place to buy something (l00k, great deal > $500 for Sparc5, then they're just selling the case and a keyboard). So > does anyone know where I can acquire one? Well, I'd have to disagree somewhat with you on Ebay: I got my Sparc 10 through Ebay plus 2 155 Mbit ATM cards and what deals they were!! US$ 710 for 128 Mb, 2x40 MHz SuperSparc with 1 Gb HD, 20" monitor, cdrom and Solaris 2.6 installed.... 150 US$ for a Fore SBA200E 155MBit ATM NIC and the same one for PCI at 120 US$ or so? Takes some beating.... Anyway, enough hot air :-) You can try http://www.sunhelp.org which has a number of pointers to shops selling Suns and Sun equipment. Another good one is the comp.sys.sun.hardware newsgroup which, in addition to providing really good hardware problem solving, often has rather interesting deals on all sorts of hardware. For example, I recently saw someone selling SM71 75 MHz MBus CPU modules (the kind that go in SS10s and 20s, approx. equal to Pentium 200) for 240 US$. Considering they're going for at least 100 US$ more at http://www.memoryx.com that's not bad at all. About 6 months ago memoryx wanted almost 500 $ for them. I'm a bit surprised at your quote of 500$ for just a case and keyboard. Maybe it's just the silly season... :-) Gerald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message