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Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> wrote in article
<6aqmsf$1vt$1@news3.texas.net>...
> Put down the crack pipe, and slowly back away from the keyboard.
> 
> Your system is worth about half of what you're asking, if that.

How about giving me a few pointers.

I just bargained for two Sparcstation 2 model 147 mchines. Both have 32 MB
RAM and work fine. Got them in exchange for getting something else working.

There are two external disk chassis model EXP-2. One box goes with each;
one boots up fine and is currently running. The other has an I/O error on
the disk, and I cannot get it stable enough to try fsck. The working disk
seems to be about 1GB, so I assume the other is. (both from the same
office)

I have two Sun Monitors model GDM-1962. One works, one doesn't.

The SS2 which has a bad disk boots and runs fine when booted off the good
disk, so I'm convinced it's in good shape.

Both Disks have Sun OS, not Solaris on them. The working disk seems to have
a development system on it, make, yacc.ex, etc., but I'm not sure all the
includes are there. The working disk has OpenWindows and Sunview.

Can I daisy chain a SCSI cable from the working disk to the bad disk and
attemt to repair the disk? 

Can I add a second disk in to each of the external cases?  1GB disks are
small these days.

Can I increase the RAM easily? I've already found that they use 30 Pin
SIMMS, not 72 Pin ones which I have lots of. Will I just trash the old
memory or is thre some expansion chassis?

Who is likely to be able to fix the monitor? No one in town wants to touch
it.

How expensive would it be to get the latest Solaris for them and is there
enough machine here for that to make sense?  How about a development
system? I have an unused Soalris iX86 with a full development system. Can I
use that to cross compile to the Sparc? could I cross compile gcc and then
use the headers from the iX86?

Will one of these make a reasonable mail server for a two person office? My
background is really in SCO, not Solaris. How much trouble will I have?

Where is a good place to start scrounging for technical information? These
will be a fun project, but we're really trying to run a business here and I
can't get derailed looking for tidbits.

Thanks for any pointers.

Michael