A lot of the sparc 4c,4m and even 4u Ultra 1's are fast becoming scrapper 
fodder at the auction I frequent. I picked up several PALLETS of sparc stuff 
including 3 ultra's a couple of ss10' ss20 and ss5 including a SS5 175mhz and 
an untold amount of 411 cases a couple of 611 cases, a sparcstorage array sans 
disks and various sun/sparc miscellany for about $5. I left behind several of 
the big 20" monitors as I have no more room in the truck. If I don't buy it it 
goes to the scrapper there, and now they are not even buying the stuff, so it 
goes to the trash.

A lot of older sun stuff goes unsold on ebay. You hardly see anymore ss1/2, 
ss10/20/5/4 as they are not worth it to ship, much less to sell.

I buy the stuff mainly for parts for my existing machines which I use all the 
time for mostly dns,mail, gateway or dhcp machines.

But I do get some good finds, as no one buys the sun stuff anymore. On an 
innocuous looking pallet of old sparcs I got an ultra 10 400Mhz  w/1 gb of 
mem, 3d creator, and two ide drives of 18 and 45 gb for about $10 last month. 
Now that I can use on my desktop!!!

Cheers

Tom


> 
>>I bought my Ultra2 (2x170Mhz,512MB RAM, 2z4.3GB SCSI HD) on eBay for $71 ($96
>>after shipping) _from_ anysystems.com 
>>
>>They sell some of their "Ugly Ducklings" on eBay to introduce potential buyers
>>to them, that being said, if I were in the market for an older, but not
>>ancient used Sun, they'd get my business
> 
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