Magnus Hedemark on 30 Dec 2003 15:34:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Unix Workstation for sale


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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