[geeks] Sun stuff on auction locally

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Julius Sridhar wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Fogg, James wrote:

> > I highly recommend the SparcStation 5's and they are, IMHO, the best of the
> > bunch at this auction. You will probably want more ram and disk though. The
> > SS5 is modern enough that you won't have to go begging for parts, yet old
> > enough to be worth very small dollars (maybe $30 to $90 depending on CPU,
> > +$25 to +$50 more with monitor). They are SBus machines and use most of the
> > SBus cards. They *can* be fast enough to run Solaris 8 (get lots of RAM and
> > a TGX+ frame buffer). They come in models ranging from a 80mhz processor to
> > a 170Mhz processor (my favorite). The 110Mhz is no slouch either. They use
> > SCSI disks with SCA interfaces (not the more common 50 pin "IDE" type
> > connector).
> >
> 
> The 110MHz SPARC 5's are decent.  The 170MHz TurboSPARC modules are a
> third party upgrade part.

Ummm, there were 4 Sun Sparcstation 5's: the 70, the 85, the 110, and the
170.  All are Sun products.  There are 3rd-party upgrades, the 170MHz
Turbosparc board was Sun.

I keep a 5/170 kicking around for the fun of it - since it has cache, it's
not a bad system...

-Pete