From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 15:23:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA01896 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user6868@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA01874 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 15:22:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 10 Dec 1997 23:01:45 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:01:45 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: Josef Grosch cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port In-Reply-To: <19971210124021.52222@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a Sparc to sell if anyone wants to start playing around. Sparc 20 Model 51, 128MB, 20" Trinitron, 6.4GB SCSI, ethernet, Solaris 2.5 CD & Manuals, Informix Online Workgroup Server w/ 10 client licenses and web license), 2X SCSI CD-ROM, PC-layout and Sun-layout KBs, etc. Email privately of interested. Not "cheap" per se, but it is collecting dust over here. I am trying to get rid of it before the end of the year. Kevin On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 02:57:35PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Jason Evans wrote: > > > > [ DELETED ] > > > > > I would also be a little curious about the availability of sparc hardware > > for hobbyist folk. Few of us can afford $10K servers, but what other kind > > of more modest setups might be available? I know you probably aren't a > > walking database of such things, but if you come up with occaisonal > > pointers to folks selling motherboards that might fit into pc cases, and > > maybe use PCI, and the location of sparc docs on the web, it'd be nice to > > post such things. I'd read them, and probably lots of others would too. > > It's likely (working where you do) that you'd be more likely to fall into > > that kind of info than I would. > > > > I have been looking around for used SPARC equipment recently. I have been > seeing SPARC 5 with a 1 or 2 gig drive, 64 meg of ram and no monitor going > for between $900.00 and $1500.00. I have seen SPARC 2, IPC, and IPX going > for in the $500.00 to $1000.00 range. This, of course, depends on how much > memory and disk the system has and how much the owner thinks it worth. Sun > monitors are _DAMED_ expensive. I have yet to see one for under $1500.00. I > will most likely end up running mine headless. > > > Josef > > -- > Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.5 > jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses >