[geeks] Any ole Sparc

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at franticfilms.com> wrote:

> I won a U1-140 on eBay that I don't think I really need. I think it
> was $20-25 plus shipping.

My recent eBay win:

U1-170E listed as having "no CPU" for $25, w/$26 S/H - it had 2x 32 Meg
DIMMs, and a Creator3D card.

It is running fine. I had absolutely no use for it, other than to put
my spare U1-140 MB into use. Now I can't even do that, since the damn
thing is working fine! (I had a flakey U1, but I thought it was a bad
MB, so I got a spare - turns out the PS was bad, now I have an extra MB
- anyone want the U1-140 MB? (Please contact me off-list if interested)

Anyway, I stuffed it w/32 Meg DIMMs, a couple 2 Gig HDs (handy), and
shoved an old SCSI CD-ROM drive in the case (pulled from a dumpster
dive PC a year ago), and a few hours later, Solaris 9 was running!

U1s are low-cost, absolutely - but still lots of fun!

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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