[SunRescue] got my weirdsparc board from ebay in

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury3 at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 11:46 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] got my weirdsparc board from ebay in
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:02:36 -0800 (PST), James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Parris B. Wood wrote:
> >
> >> 	James got his two and I ended up with one of yours. 
> Well, it had a
> >> note addressed to you so I figured it was yours. With you 
> having your
> >> board I went and pestered the fellow to see if they have 
> found the others. 
> >
> >If you're referring to me, I only got one (only ordered one, for that
> >matter).  The box was fairly abused and the board was 
> missing the NVRAM
> >chip.
> >
> >> 	Keep us up to speed James, I'm interested to see what 
> can be made
> >> of those boards =]
> >
> >They appear to basically be embedded Classics (50MHz microSparc).
> 
> How much were these boards, and where were these listed?  eBay?

They were an auction on Ebay.

> 
> Also, how well will an IPC run with Linux and 12MB of RAM?

As long as you don't touch X, probably ok.  If you can, two disks should
help, but from my recent performance tests on 2.2.14, disk access is WICKED
slow...  Going to try 2.2.15pre14 tonight, but...

> 
> I'm thinking of forcing my brother with an extra IPC with 
> Linux, to get him paritially
> interested in UNIX (but I don't have much more RAM at this time).

Good!  The more people who know/use anything other than MS windows, the
better off we are!  :)
	Greg