[geeks] valuation on a sparc 2 / ss10?

[Geoff Reed]

if I can ever find dual capable cpu's at a price i can afford 
:(  >Sigh<   most places still want too damn much for the older cpu's 
:(  why blow $125 on a ross 150 when for the same $ you can get s Ultra1, 
128MB ram, 4 gigs of HDD cdrom and floppy?

At 12:19 AM 1/13/02 -0800, you wrote:
>On Saturday, January 12, 2002, at 11:40 , Geoff Reed wrote:
>
>>just bought a SS10 ~ 3 mos ago for $15 bux, good mainboard, PS and floppy 
>>but damamged case... got a new case for it for $2.50.....
>>'course with 4 Ultra 1's that i've repaired over the last ~ year, i'm not 
>>sure why i'm bothering with my sparc 5's, 10's and 20's anymore, they're 
>>all uniproc machines :(
>
>Ahh, but one with 2 procs is a nice system.  I find a 256M/Dual 75 SS20 to 
>*still* be useful, after all these years.  The SS20 was an *amazing* 
>system, easily one of the top 5 systems Sun made.
>
>IMO, those would be (in no order):
>
>Sun-2/120 (First "really useful" deskside Sun)
>Sun-3/60 (Kicked butt as a technical workstation - color, 24M of RAM)
>SPARCstation 2 (The SS1 made us drool, but the SS2 was truly ass-kicking)
>SS 1000 (Proved that MP was actually useful, and is still a good box with 
>an SSA)
>Ultra-2 (Last, best desktop sbus system - and a great server as well.)
>
>(You will notice the lack of the E10K, which we all know is one of my 
>favorites.  It's really not a "Sun" system, in that a goodly portion of it 
>was really designed by Cray, and can be traced back through FP Systems to 
>Celerity.  It was a good purchase, however...)
>
>There are a couple of other notables:
>SPARCstation 1 (12.5 MIPS in a desktop?  Wow!)
>SS10 (First MP desktop)
>E450 (Workhorse, plain and simple)
>386i (What NOT to do!)
>F15K (Scales to over 100 CPU's)
>
>-Pete
>_______________________________________________
>GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks