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Article #2428Re: Sun Ultra 60 or not?
From: Dave Wade
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:37
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:37
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"terryc" <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message news:pan.2008.06.30.14.02.17.11063@woa.com.au... > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:53:39 +0000, DoN. Nichols wrote: > >> On 2008-06-29, terryc <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >>> My 2c is that if you are going to go out and spend $$$ to buy hardware, >>> then buy X86 system hardware rather than sun stuff. Especially if you >>> have >>> some hardware skills and can buy yumcha x86 stuff. The parts will >>> always >>> be reuseable in other systems. >> >> Tell that to my collection of ISA cards which won't work in the >> PCI slots of newer Intel boxen. And what is the meaning of "yumcha"? >> I've never encountered it before. And for that matter -- what about the >> ST-506 interface disks from the old PCs? You have to find a controller >> which will fit in a PCI slot and talk to the disk on anything made since >> the IDE interface came into common use. And good luck fining one of >> *those* with a PCI connector. :-) > > Yawn, you left out your collection of S100 cards. > So can I get a Token Ring card that works in a U60? The ones from my SS-10 don't
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