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RE: [PLUG] where to buy on line?
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What about the serial port. As I remember, If you remove the keyboard from
the sun, it sends all console output to the serial port.
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, William Shank wrote:
> and one other thing -
>
> does anyone know about SUN hardware? particularily older stuff. i have an
> SPARCstation 4 that i once setup with mandrake 7 or redhat 7 (don't recall
> exactly). When i set it up i had a sun monitor for it, which i subsequently
> sold along with a lunchbox style sparcstation. after i sold it i realized
> that i had never enabled ssh or even telnet, so i can't get into the box to
> do anything to it. at one point i got what i thought was an adapter which
> change the sun video connector to standard PC style connector. i don't think
> it was the proper connnector - i had about a second of almost legible video
> then nothing - i think i blew the video. i pretty much confirmed this by
> getting my hands on the original monitor - no luck.
>
> so my question is - does anyone know how i can get a terminal connection to
> this or get into the PROM via a terminal connection?
>
> thanks
> chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Razler
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> Sent: 1/12/02 2:38 PM
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] where to buy on line?
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> I have not had many bad experiences with vendors from
> www.pricewatch.com. Is there a specific hardware item you are
> looking for (hard drive, monitor, etc.)?
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: William Shank [mailto:wshank@mbcnet.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 2:36 PM
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> Subject: [PLUG] where to buy on line?
>
> i'd like to know where are some good places to buy computer stuff
> on-line?
> do you have a preferred trusted vendor? i understand crucial is great
> for
> ram (wish i had known that before buying from edgemicro.com - very
> crappy
> return policy and i still haven't gotten my money back - months
> later), what
> other places are reputable?
>
> thanks
>
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