[rescue] Anyone have any info on this?

[Brian Hechinger]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:59:35PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> I just won a Sun SPF100 on eBay

what the hell is an SPF100?  i've _NEVER_ heard that before.  although from the
pics it looks exactly like a sparc5 to me.

> some searching before I bid and it looks pretty good. I figure I could sell
> the 4port Ethernet card for more than the price of the machine if need be.

the ethernet and the PCMCIA cards are worth more than you paid for the box.
good deal.  the last time i plugged a quad fastE card into a sparc5 the thing
wouldn't even power on, so don't be surprised if that's a 10Mbit quad card.

> Just wondering if anyone has any more info or links to info.

it looks like a sparc5 with a PCMCIA "thing" (i hate calling them cards, since
you *put* PCMCIA _CARDS_ in them, but, on well) and a quad-E card.  don't know
if you'll have much use for the quad-E but you can get one of them PCMCIA-CF
adapters and plug your CF cards right in there (i do it, it rules) and mount
them as a filesystem and copy away.

the sparc5 is a nice box.  my first sparc machine was a 5 (paid $3K for it a
couple years ago with 16MB RAM, 2x500MB disks and a 17" tube.) and i still love
that box to this very day.  as soon as i get something that'll nicely route
between my FDDI ring and my ethernet (got a lead on a cisco 7k) i'll probably
make the sparc5 my firewall again.  it was good at that.

anyway, nice haul.

-brian

ps: anyone know if there are any wireless cards that are supported by Solaris?
i'd love to plug a wireless card into my sparc20 and turn it into a base station
for a wireless network.

pps: i've found my new food addiction.  Cheddar Cheese CHEEZ-IT crackers. yum.