[rescue] mystery machine

[bluecanary at shaft.shaftnet.org]

Well Dan, I sure hope nobody took you up on that bet, as it turned out to 
be a SS1000... =)

I was misled in the description I'd been given-- it was not at all 
table-sized, or 400 pounds. It did have 6 cpus, though, and places for 
several hard drives. UNfortunately, the salvage shop guy had taken out all 
the memory and HDDs, it had not come to him with its two front boot 
drives, was thus not testable to see if it still works... AND looked as if 
it had been dropped or whacked hard, and one of the back trays holding a 
card with CPUs on it had broken triggers and wouldn't open at all.

We didn't get it. =)

Thanks for the advice, Dave! Turns out you guessed right on the model. If 
anybody's dying for a beaten-up SS1000 that may not work, in the Atlanta, 
GA area, I can tell you where the shop is. I'm guessing not, though...
--Ariel

On 21 Jan 2002, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> I would bet my bank account on it being a dual processor with a SM100 in
> it.  you think it's 6 processor because there's 6 little round heat
> sinks on it.  look for a picture of a sm100 online, and i bet that's
> what you're dealing with. (god i need a digital camera)  the SM100 blows
> balls.  and the machine in my opinion is NOT worth $250.  i paid $50 for
> my 670mp with a sm100, 128mb RAM, 1 1gig disk, and 1 2gig disk.  Tell
> them that's it's only a dual processor module, and that it sucks
> seawater, and that if you wanted to actually use it, you'd need a new
> mbus module to put a decent processor or two in.  Other than that, the
> 670mp is a cool box, mine is my webserver. (and as soon as i get my PROM
> from dave, it's getting upgraded from it's sm100 to dual sm61's.)
> 
> 	-Dan Sikorski
> 
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 21:42, bluecanary at shaft.shaftnet.org wrote:
> > I've just joined the list on a friend's advice.
> > I found a place with an "old" (no actual date) 6-processor Sun with 6 1-G 
> > drives. It's big and heavy-- maybe about 400 pounds, and the size of a 
> > small table. They want $250 for it. That's all I know.  Any idea what it 
> > might be? What's useful, and could be that old? Anything I should avoid?
> > I'm going to go look at it tomorrow, and would love some background 
> > knowledge.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Ariel
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