[rescue] thought on finding good home for sun collection

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:41:35PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:51:30AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> > You don't happen to have the Symbolics add-in card for Sun, do you?  IIRC 
> > it was a VME card and you talked to it over TCP/IP and X Windows.
> 
> A UX board!  
> 
> See:
>  http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/symbolics-info/next-generation.html
> 
> (also: http://www.lispmachine.net , which I run..)
> 
> I want a MacIvory board (goes in a Mac IIfx/Quadra) *so* bad, but they're
> $900 from Symbolics. 8-(

A few years ago (2002-2003ish I guess) you could still get a UX-400 from
Symbolics, but they would provide no guaranty that it worked, and
indicated that they wouldn't be able to provide much help with it
either.

In many ways, I'd rather have a UX-400 or UX-1200 than a MacIvory.