[geeks] E-Bay - 1991 Sun TriGem Slt-100 Sparc Laptop

[Ken Hansen]

Yes Bill, and Kraft Macaroni & Cheese *is* a meal, but I *never* sit down to
a big steaming bowl of it when I am hungry... ;^)

Last I heard, the best use you could come up with for these "gems" was to
make a beowulf cluster/bookshelf.

If we are all so spoiled, how many SS/1s do you run at home? Work?

Yeah, I know, not the point - we didn't say they weren't good (in their
time), we just wouldn't go stand out in a parking lot at 6:00 AM to get a
free one:

See: http://www.xppcentral.com/xpp/seaimages.asp

We all simply said out loud what we practice.

OH, and a CG6 = "good framebuffer", telnet = applications (not X windows),
and no one disputed "GOOD WORK"

Geez, your tirade was easily predicted - we are at about once a week now
Bill! ;^)

Ken
You saw the ;^) right?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] E-Bay - 1991 Sun TriGem Slt-100 Sparc Laptop


> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 06:43:14PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Why, how much speed would Sun expect from a 25 MHz CPU? ;^)
> > Besides, a nice frambuffer can *help* a slow CPU WRT X Windows...
> > When the COU is that aprox. speed, my thought is "you can run X, or you
can
> > run applications, but not both"...
> > Ken
>
> YOU ARE ALL SPOILED.
>
> Keep in mind - ten years ago - THIS WAS A HOT-ASS WORKSTATION.
>
> I did PLENTY of "good work" on a 16meg SPARCstation 1, with multiple
> 200 or 500 meg hard drives, a dual-slot CG6, and an old Hitachi 19".
> Running Netscape, FVWM, *and* having other people telnetted in.



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