>You are probably thinking that I got a bad deal on it...but I figured 
   >that $45 for the box wasn't too bad.
   
     Not at all.  Contrary to what the PeeCee world would have us believe, these
   machines will do the same work today as they did five years ago.  Just avoid
   BloatWare(tm) and you'll be in great shape.  NetBSD/sparc is an excellent start
   and runs very well on the IPX.  Just try to put in enough RAM to keep it from
   paging too much and you'll do fine.

i <heart> my IPX.


neil, if you're still out there listening, thanks again.