[SunRescue] Q: Regarding Sun Educator promo Ultra 5 system

[Jonathan Eisch]

I have a Micronics with the intel 440whatever chips in it, just like the
intel, but came in a Micron computer.  Works ok with nt 4, would sell it
except for the fact that it isn't worth much, so I use it to compile
stuff.

-Jonathan

Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> So how many folks have this Motherboard? I have one (I am a big fan of
> cheap SMP x86 systems, I have a 2xP133 (non-MMX), 2xPPro180 (the
> famous Intel motherboard), and my current deskside machine a dual P2
> 333 Mhz system with 256M RAM and Win2K... I still lust after the Ultra5,
> but this is a nice Intel box.
> 
> Note: I buy these motherboards when they get under $100 each, then wait
> for the CPU prices to bottom-out. My current system took a year to
> accumulate all the parts, but every item in the case was a bargain, down to
> the 4 M S3-based video card for $10 (after CompUSA rebate!).
> 
> It's funny how we all work with the same machines... (and now that I think
> about it, that PPro system (sitting unused right now, has 4x64 Meg EDO ECC
> SIMMs in it - that Ultra 5 is starting to look pretty interesting...)
> 
> Ken
> n2vip at bellatlantic.net
> 
> "Cyrus M. Reed" wrote:
> 
> > Even worse, try finding Buffered EDO ECC DRAM DIMMS, that's the *only*
> > thing my Dual PPro board (Intel PR440FX) will take.  I love the system
> > (built in 10/100 networking, Adaptec 7880 UW SCSI, I'd call it a
> > workstation if I didn't know it would be insulting to the real thing), but
> > RAM is a killer for it.
> 
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