[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[RRrr at rits.com.au]

Gee, I must be doing well, no flames for my Linux comment (yet)!

> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:44:43 +1000
> From: Steven Lawrance <steven at sia.net.au>
> RR <rr at rits.com.au> (13 Jul 2000 20:26 +1000):
> > My $0.02:
> 
> I hope that includes GST.  ;-)
> 
Of course, but i forgot to write "Tax Invoice" so you can't claim it as
an input credit :)

> I'm just wondering, whereabouts did you pick up your Sun machines?  I
> don't see very many around here second-hand/whatever.  All I have is
> an IPX with 16mb of ram.
Lots of places :)  I've been lucky with Sun kit, almost nobody wants it,
and I've been in the right places at the right times (well I was with
the IPCs and the 370).  I paid a small fortune for the '10 but got a
nice-ish 20" monitor, 2 x SM51 CPUs and a fair lump of RAM.  

For the LX and Classic, I went to the auctions and bid on them every
week for 3 months before they finally sold them to me.  They were
selling them as "Untested" and being PC-centric, had no idea what they
were.  I took in my null modem cable and satisfied myself they were fine
(both booted Solaris 2.4 from their internal disk) then bid for them
that auction.  The auctioneers knew that anything with a Sun logo
usually goes for a lot (Exabytes usually go for $20, Sun branded
exabytes go for up to $100 !!!) so they kept saying I hadn't reached the
reserve.  In the end, they eventually sold them to me for less than half
what I bid the first night they came up.  Sun kit is usually rare in
Canberra auctions, I just keep going and eventually find some, but get
beaten by the dealers that just buy based on the logos on the boxes. 
There has been quite a few Axil boxes come up recently, a Sparc 10SX
complete with VSIMM that I got outbid on, and lots of dead monitors
(yes, the PC people pay a fortune for these as well because of the Sun
logo!)

>> From: =?us-ascii?Q?chris_Gunther?= <madram at video.de>
>> PPS. Does anyone else find it ironic that the item that got Bill into
>> trouble with Sun is now hosting sunhelp.org  ?
>What is that supposed to mean? Did I miss something?
Probably.  Ask Bill next time he's in a good mood.