[rescue] Getting back into Sun - Blade 100 or Ultra 5?

[Lionel Peterson]

That might be a nice, quiet, reasonable power consumer of a system. Memory boards are, as I recall, hard to find for hobby-friendly prices, but it's a nice good basic system.

Ken

> On Nov 21, 2024, at 17:13, Cameron Kelly via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> I’ve got a Sun Netra X1 you can have for the cost of shipping. I’m based in Toronto Ontario so not too far from Michigan.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Nov 21, 2024, at 12:39 PM, Christopher Purdy via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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>> After a long hiatus, looking to get an older Sun to show the kids for our homeschool computer class..  Leaning toward the Ultra 5, but not sure.  Planning on an older Solaris 7 or 8 install - possibly a BSD flavor down the road.
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>> Pro's and Cons of each?
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>> I've read about the anemic cache on the Blade... but wasn't sure about the actual performance differences..  Mainly just planning to set up a web server so they can get a feel for networking and such..  It would be nice to have some sort of viable web browser for simpler pages and to get software so I can show them installation and compiling, etc..
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>> Main reason for selecting these two is the 'bay has them relatively cheaply - but any of the higher end workstations are 2-10X more expensive..  the days of cheap SUN goodies are gone it appears.
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>> On that note - if anyone has some decent SUN kit in the Detroit / Flint area let me know, I'd prefer not pay shipping on these beasts.  In a perfect world - an Ultra 30/60 with working SCSI drives would be perfect...
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>> Christopher Purdy
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