<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone! I decided on the U5 as I found an "in original box" that looked clean and had everything except the hdd - and I had an old type 5 keyboard and mouse in storage. I'm going to experiment a bit on the hdd - I know about the 120GB limit... and am going to attempt (at least see what happens) with a SATA / IDE adapter and a 64gb ssd drive.. I'll fall back to a 7200rpm ide drive if that doesnt work.<div><br></div><div>A bit of the backstory here:</div><div>I have an old SS2 that I pulled out of storage and attempted to get going over the summer - and again today - it will manage getting to openboot... and after quite a bit of playing and trying some different CDROM's I had in storage - I decided to leave it and move on. I could get it to recognize its HDD (ancient barracuda drive - LOUD!), but would give a stack underflow error when it tried to boot from it.. it also would see my CDROM's but the first I tried (DEC model) seemed to not spin up at all... The second (NEC Multispin 6Xi) would spin up and read the disc, but kept giving stack underflow errors as well... I decided that instead of putting any more $$$ into this machine I'd move up to an ultra series - which leads us to my original post. </div><div><br></div><div>I am curious as to what the stack underflow error is about though? That's a new one on me... </div><div><br></div><div>- Chris</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 2:49\u202fPM Lionel Peterson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think the deciding factors of which system is 'best' comes down to a handful of factors (in no particular order):<br>
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Cost<br>
Completeness<br>
Noise<br>
Size<br>
Power<br>
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The U5 and SB100 easily meet any reasonable noise, size, and power requirements. Cost and Completeness are dependent on what's available when you're shopping. Be careful not to just assume missing memory, drives, etc are easily available verify availability of needed accy before committing to a system.<br>
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(My favorite system was the Ultra 2, but that's because I worked with them.)<br>
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I'd suggest focusing on a system that has maximum RAM and can accept a cheap 2nd and maybe 3rd NIC to help with various networking demonstrations you want to provide.<br>
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A current browser would be tough, not sure of options there...<br>
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Literally anything from a Sun4c or newer would be fine for your purposes, IMHO.<br>
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Good luck,<br>
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Ken<br>
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> On Nov 21, 2024, at 11:39, Christopher Purdy via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org" target="_blank">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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> Pro's and Cons of each?<br>
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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..<br>
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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.<br>
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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... <br>
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> Christopher Purdy<br>
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