Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:40:21 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Message-ID: <19971210124021.52222@mooseriver.com>
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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
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