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Re: [PLUG] Unix Workstation for sale
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Douglas Lentz wrote:
> Thanks for the offer, Mike. Does the Sparcstation have an ethernet card?
Douglas, it's worth noting that this is not a PeeCee. Every Sun box in my
collection (which isn't what it used to be, but is still more than any
sane person should have) has ethernet right on the system board. The
SPARCstations are old enough that the built in ethernet is only 10Mbps but
can be upgraded with an SBus "Happy Meal" card (hme). You can get those
pretty cheaply on eBay. The hard disks on these are SCA SCSI which are
somewhat easy to find. If you do add a second hard disk you'll need to
find a Sun drive tray that is made for the SS5.
SPARCstation 5 is very old but a worthwhile way to get into SPARC hardware
if you can get it for a good price. There are several good OS options for
it, with maybe 2 good Linux distros, 2 BSD's and even the latest version
of Solaris working pretty well on the advertised configuration.
--Magnus
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