gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:20:11 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc


On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:40:15PM -0400, Noah silva wrote:
> another great thing about sun equipment is that sometimes PC dealers buy
> them from schools or the government and have no idea what they are.  When
> they get tham back to the shop, they say "what are these strange
> connectors.. how does it work.. damn-it".  They assume it's useless stuff
> because they don't see a standard VGA slot or USB and they sell it as junk
> stuff, I have seen this happen even to pretty nice new stuff if the dealer
> is uneducated enough ;)

Just as long as they don't do something silly (bad example since it
doesn't exist on the era Suns we're talking about: fry an LVD
controller by plugging HVD devices into it)...

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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