[rescue] Seeking early Sun Pizzabox systems

[mc68010]

On 5/9/2013 1:06 PM, Oliver Cromwell wrote:
> Hello rescuers..
>
> I am trying to add to my early Sun collection (which today consists
> primarily of Sparcstation 2's up to 20's).  I want to add early Sun 2 & 3
> Pizzabox and desktop configurations and also Sparcstation 1 or 1+ options.
>   Specifically I'd love to acquire any of the below..
>
> Sparcstation 1 (Sun 4/60)
> Sparcstation 1+ (Sun 4/65)
> Sun 3/50
> Sun 3/60
> Sun 3/80
> Sun 3/140
> Sun 2/50 (one just sold on eBay for $400 - is that really what these are
> going for)?
> Sun 1/100 (are any of these in existence)?
>

You should probably expect to pay a lot for anything Sun 2 and even more 
for Sun 1. There are a couple hardcore early Sun collectors hunting ebay 
that will pay as much as it takes to get them. I suspect the 2/50 went 
to one of them. I saw a Sun 1 multibus cpu card for $600 a few years 
ago. Not even a whole sun 1. Just the cpu card. A compete Sun 1 is 
probably going to go for a mess.  Sun 3 stuff can still be had fairly 
cheap but, shipping will kill you on Sun 3 stuff. They weigh a ton. You 
can still actually find Sun 3 stuff for free but, if it ain't local it 
really isn't free. It's like $75 to ship a 3/60 anywhere. Freight for 
any of the VME servers.