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Karun wrote:
> Wanted, Sun Workstation or server in Australia. Any sparc system, sparc or
> ultrasparc, etc.
> Email karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
> 
> Thankyou
> 
> 
> 

A SparcStation 1+ (25mhz model) just arrived, machine, monitor, SCSI CD 
with caddy, SCSI tape drive at Compuchange (Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney, 
opposite the Powerhouse).  It might be a bit old/slow though ;)

Amos

PS: I was actually wondering what it's worth, I thought of getting it to 
play with it :)

Amos Barnett wrote:

> Karun wrote:
> > Wanted, Sun Workstation or server in Australia. Any sparc system, sparc or
> > ultrasparc, etc.
> > Email karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
> >
> > Thankyou
> >
> >
> >
>
> A SparcStation 1+ (25mhz model) just arrived, machine, monitor, SCSI CD
> with caddy, SCSI tape drive at Compuchange (Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney,
> opposite the Powerhouse).  It might be a bit old/slow though ;)
>
> Amos
>
> PS: I was actually wondering what it's worth, I thought of getting it to
> play with it :)

I'd say it was worth 2 bits of second-user chewing gum.

In article <3C8742A2.1FC03E99@slaz.freeserve.co.uk>,
Martin Slaney  <martin@slaz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
| 
| 
| Amos Barnett wrote:
| 
| > Karun wrote:
| > > Wanted, Sun Workstation or server in Australia. Any sparc system, sparc or
| > > ultrasparc, etc.
| > > Email karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
| >
| > A SparcStation 1+ (25mhz model) just arrived, machine, monitor, SCSI CD
| > with caddy, SCSI tape drive at Compuchange (Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney,
| > opposite the Powerhouse).  It might be a bit old/slow though ;)
| >
| > Amos
| >
| > PS: I was actually wondering what it's worth, I thought of getting it to
| > play with it :)
| 
| I'd say it was worth 2 bits of second-user chewing gum.


	We are still using one as a UseNet News server (not a
	full feed of course) - it's extremely reliable :)


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      \\\  \\					- Virgitarian Mary

Im interested in purchasing the machine. Please reply to me by email to
karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
Karun

In article <GsMIw0.6D0.0.glort@GTS.Net>, bdb@gts.org wrote:

> In article <3C8742A2.1FC03E99@slaz.freeserve.co.uk>,
> Martin Slaney  <martin@slaz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> | 
> | 
> | Amos Barnett wrote:
> | 
> | > Karun wrote:
> | > > Wanted, Sun Workstation or server in Australia. Any sparc system, sparc 
> | > > or
> | > > ultrasparc, etc.
> | > > Email karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
> | >
> | > A SparcStation 1+ (25mhz model) just arrived, machine, monitor, SCSI CD
> | > with caddy, SCSI tape drive at Compuchange (Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney,
> | > opposite the Powerhouse).  It might be a bit old/slow though ;)
> | >
> | > Amos
> | >
> | > PS: I was actually wondering what it's worth, I thought of getting it to
> | > play with it :)
> | 
> | I'd say it was worth 2 bits of second-user chewing gum.
> 
> 
> 	We are still using one as a UseNet News server (not a
> 	full feed of course) - it's extremely reliable :)

I'd say "extremely reliable" is an understatement. With NetBSD 1.5 I've 
used an SS1+ as a 1.5Mbit ADSL gateway, proxy cache, DNS, 
Apache/MySQL/PHP/AppleShare/NFS server - all in 6MB resident. Same 
machine is now my 56kbps dialup gateway, still running all those 
services. Has never missed a beat. An SS1 was my employer's email and 
web proxy until about 18 months ago.

If your brand-new *nt*l box goes down for even 1 hour (unthinkable, eh!) 
then the SS1+ has paid for itself several times over. :)) Besides, 
they're great to learn on. You can totally put aside niggling driver 
issues and h/w flakiness that comes with sh*tboxes these days, and 
concentrate on learning UNIX administration (I began with SunOS 4 on 
SPARC.)

Toby

> 
> 
> O .		Bruce Becker	Toronto, Ontario	+1 416 410 0879
>   o  _///_ //	Email: bdb@Oghenefega.gts.org
>    <`)=  _<<	"I was good, and ate all my vegetables."
>       \\\  \\					- Virgitarian Mary

Martin Slaney wrote:
>Amos Barnett wrote:

>> PS: I was actually wondering what it's worth, I thought of getting it to
>> play with it :)
>
>I'd say it was worth 2 bits of second-user chewing gum.

If you don't have to pay for shipping.


Seriously, the $$$ value is probably zero. Usage value, if it's
something you're willing to work with, may be quite high though. It's
one of those old tanks that will do a lot and keep on doing.
.. unless the nvram dies. Then it needs some attention.

This article was written on the very machine. Or at least on the type4
of a SS1+. The actual vi was running elsewhere =)

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In article <GsMIw0.6D0.0.glort@GTS.Net>, bdb@gts.org wrote:

> In article <3C8742A2.1FC03E99@slaz.freeserve.co.uk>,
> Martin Slaney  <martin@slaz.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> | 
> | 
> | Amos Barnett wrote:
> | 
> | > Karun wrote:
> | > > Wanted, Sun Workstation or server in Australia. Any sparc system,
sparc or
> | > > ultrasparc, etc.
> | > > Email karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
> | >
> | > A SparcStation 1+ (25mhz model) just arrived, machine, monitor, SCSI CD
> | > with caddy, SCSI tape drive at Compuchange (Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney,
> | > opposite the Powerhouse).  It might be a bit old/slow though ;)
> | >
> | > Amos
> | >
> | > PS: I was actually wondering what it's worth, I thought of getting it to
> | > play with it :)
> | 
> | I'd say it was worth 2 bits of second-user chewing gum.
> 
> 
>         We are still using one as a UseNet News server (not a
>         full feed of course) - it's extremely reliable :)

Back when boxes were built to last :)

I was at a site about two months ago who were using a late Sun3 machine of
some sort for local mail. According to its admin, it hasn't missed a beat
yet.

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In aus.computers.sun devnull@sdf.lonestar.org probably wrote:
> I was at a site about two months ago who were using a late Sun3 machine of
> some sort for local mail. According to its admin, it hasn't missed a beat
> yet.

I've been using an IPX as an off-site tertiary NS for quite a while now.
Only time it's ever missed a beat is when its PSU fan finally packed it
in and needed some downtime to replace it (didn't think hot-swapping a
PSU fan was wise ;).

PD 

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In article <slrna8kj83.cdp.harri.haataja@melkki.cs.Helsinki.FI>,
harri.haataja@cs.helsinki.fi (Harri J Haataja) wrote:

> Martin Slaney wrote:
> >Amos Barnett wrote:
> 
> >> PS: I was actually wondering what it's worth, I thought of getting it to
> >> play with it :)
> >
> >I'd say it was worth 2 bits of second-user chewing gum.
> 
> If you don't have to pay for shipping.
> 
> 
> Seriously, the $$$ value is probably zero. Usage value, if it's
> something you're willing to work with, may be quite high though. It's
> one of those old tanks that will do a lot and keep on doing.
> .. unless the nvram dies. Then it needs some attention.

That's when you replace the NVRAM, and it'll keep on running :)

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