Re: Livingston vs. The real world.

Jeff Thomas (jeff@webnexus.com)
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 00:03:32 -0700 (PDT)

Matthew S. Crocker wrote:
>
> > Within the last two months I have advised people about buying used
> > SPARC 1+ machines for $125 (they are all sold out now). To put
> > together a complete system with this base unit cost $800. I love
> > it! :-)
>
> And they are slower than molasses in Alaska during the winter, left
> outside in a blizzard... An IPX is also dirt cheap and works pretty well
> as a X Term running Solaris 2.5 w/32 MB RAM.

Yeah, but if you can find some old Sparc-2's for $400 you're in good
shape. Call up Weitek and order some 80Mhz CPU replacements - they're
hurting for cash and will probably sell those things out of written-off
stock for next to nothing. When you're done you've got a sparc-10 (but
with a slower bus) and it makes one hell of a web server. A headless
machine should run you less than $1000, and if you really need a monitor
I can probably dig a few up for you...

-Jeff

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Jeff Thomas
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