[SunRescue] IPX/Linux/or?

[Christopher Drelich]

Just a rccomendation, if you need a Terminal, www.workstation.net has them
for $125, but you can easily talk them down a bit.  In fact, I didn't have
to say anything but "$125 Right?" and his reply, "Well, you can have it
for $110."  They are nice Wyse 520s(Dual Session, Mint condition, ANSI
keyboards, full manuals, in the box.)  Note, I don't work for them, so Im
giving you nothing more than my experience with them, hope it helps.
Chris

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, James Lockwood wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, BSD Bob wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have any feel for how usable a 4/370 deskside machine would be
> > as a home server?  There was one of those on a pallet, in surplus, today,
> > but I am waiting for the price to drop (50% per week), until it fits
> > my beerbellie budget.  It looked like the backplane was full, but there
> > was one scsi cable hanging off the back, and the monitor and keyboard
> > were nowhere to be seen.  Other than the front plastic door being broken
> 
> It was probably used over a serial console unless you see a monitor port.
> Framebuffers could either be P4 bus (off of the mainboard) or regular VME
> (off of the backplane).  The P4 cg6 is quite snappy.
> 
> I used a 4/330 (same machine, smaller chassis) as my main home server from
> '95-'97.  It's similar in performance to a Sparc 1+ or IPC but seems to
> hold up better under load and can take more memory.  It will eat its
> weight in electricity every month and is loud.  Get it if you're into that
> kind of thing.  :-)
> 
> > on one hinge where the rivets had separated, it looked in fair to  good
> > shape.  What would be the expected internal drives on a 4/370?
> 
> Probably Seagate Wren-IV's, 5.25" FH 327MB (formatted capacity).  Later
> ones usually had Maxtor/Micropolis 669MB.
> 
> -James
> 
> 
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