[SunRescue] Re: Disk partitioning

[ChrisDrelichhyena at interport.net]

I was at an auction once where I spied a Sun3/80 and a SparcStation SLC.  The
auctioneers thought the SLC was the 3/80's monitor, and no one wanted a sun
computers from the 80s.  Final price: $2 for the 3/80 and its "monitor."
Chris

"Sheldon T. Hall" wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, July 23, 2000 1:15 AM, RR wrote:
> 
> > PS. I had a good laugh/cry at the weekly computer auction a few nights
> > ago, two real gems in the lineup of PeeCee rubbish.  One well cared for
> > 4/260 complete with big-arse mono monitor and 2 SMD disk boxes (same
> > size box as the 4/260).  I was tempted, but it wouldn't have fit in my
> > car, and I have absolutely nowhere to put it.  The PeeCee punters went
> > stupid when I told them it was a Sun, final bid price was $AUS120.  The
> > other gem was a lot of 2 HP9000 G50's with 3 x 90MHz cpus and 256Mb of
> > RAM each, plus CD and DDS2 tape drive, final bid price was $AUS360 each
> > with the winning bidder thinking he got some killer windoze boxes.  I
> > didn't have the heart to clue him in, nor the money to outbid him.
> 
> So, what do those folks do with the stuff once they get it home and
> discover it won't run Windows?  Bring it back to the auction and give you
> another chance, I hope....
> 
> FWIW, I've been known to buy various weird things at the local University
> surplus place, just for the parts.  F.ex, a stack of four DEC '486s, each
> containing two 16MB 60nsFPM true-parity SIMMS (suitable for my LX or the
> wife's Pentium), a 3COM ISA NIC (suitable for anything Intel), a 2-gig IDE
> hard drive (ditto), 3.5" floppy (ditto, and then some), a PS/2 keyboard
> (ditto), and various cables.  At US$40 for the lot, I think I did OK.
> 
> Of course, I knew what I was getting....
> 
> -Shel
> 
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