On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Dave McGuire wrote:

: >And for those who care, if you watch comp.sys.sun.wanted or
: >misc.forsale.computers.workstation carefully, you will see periodic postings
: >of bare (no RAM, no video, no disk) SS2 systems for $40-$70.  I got one from
: >comp.sys.sun.wanted for $20 without a floppy drive and populated it with
: >4MB 30-pin SIMMs and a spare SCSI disk.
: 
:   MY GOD...Have they really come down that far?  That's a LOT of bang for the
: buck!

Yes.  You'll find them for more ($100 and up), but there's almost a
clockwork interval where a university or company is offloading their
"stripped" systems, and this happens about once to twice a month.

You'll also find Sun3s in the same price range, and I will probably pick one
up soonish just for a cheap m68k compile box.  On .workstation, you may find
other types of "old" boxen (hp300s, for example) <$100 as well.  Between
them all, the SS2 is definitely the most bang for the buck.

(What I'd like to find is a Weitek PowerUP for "cheap"... those are
clock-multiplied CPU replacements for SS2 available over 100MHz.  :)

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)