[rescue] 670MP

[steve price]

At a recent swap meet here in DFW, there was one for
at the local "sell-by-the-pallet" vendors - it looked
fairly complete - it went for $5

--- Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at franticfilms.com>
wrote:
> Wow. I thought they were worth more.
> 
> I thought 6 processors was kind of weird.
> 
> Maybe I won't be bidding after all. It has NO drives
> of any kind. At least
> behind the top fold down panel. I don't know if they
> have internal drive
> bays (or if they do, if it has any drives).
> 
> I did some research and found the list price for the
> upgrades and it worked
> out to about $70k. That's what I call depreciation.
> 
> thanks
> shawn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org
> [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:41 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] 670MP
> 
> 
> > So I am looking at 670MP, but I don't know what to
> bid. I mentioned it
> > earlier, but I was told it was a 370.
> >
> > It has the following cards.
> >
> > 501-1901	0 MB, expansion memory VME board,
> [630MP,670MP,690MP]
> > 501-1894	motherboard, 64 MB, SM100,
> [630MP,670MP,690MP]
> > 501-1767	64 MB, memory expansion VME board,
> [670MP]
> >
> > >From what I have been told, it has 6 SM41
> processors (but the 1894 says
> > SM100?)in it with 256MB of ram (I don't see how
> they went from 128 to 256,
> > but anyways). It has no drives. I
> >
> > I took a look at it today and I want it, I just
> don't know what to bid.
> The
> > reserve is $200CAN (about $125US), I was thinking
> of biding between
> > $250-300CAN.
> >
> > I checked eBay, but I don't see any listed right
> now.
> >
> > Pictures are at (http://24.66.68.246/670mp.html)
> >
> > So what do you guys think this is worth?
> 
> Well, if it has the usual Sun 1.3g drives in it
> (maybe a pair of them),
> and it only has 128mb of ram, it is probably not
> worth much over 50
> bucks US.  One SM100 is only 2 processors on one
> card.
> 
> IFF it has a cdrom, that is a plus.
> 
> My take is still only 50 bucks.  (I paid 5 bucks for
> mine, with 3
> drives, cdrom, 128mb ram.)
> 
> If it had decent drives in it (say 3 x 4 gig or so),
> plus a tape, plus
> the cdrom, it might be worth 100 bucks.
> 
> Believe me, this thing is a dinosaur.  (But, hey, I
> run one at home as
> my main SunOS 4.1.3.U1 server.  It is SLOW on an
> SM100 processor.)
> 
> With a couple high horsepower processors, it might
> be different.  But,
> it can be a big money sinkhole, otherwise, if you
> are not careful.
> 
> It is a fun toy, though.....  I have a penchant for
> VME monsters.....
> They LOOK and SOUND like a real computer, instead of
> some whiney sort
> of Gatesware toy....just like VAXes, and Crays,
> etc....(:+}}...
> 
> Bob
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