Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?
To: Chris Amthor <amthor@chroam.de>
From: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/30/2004 01:37:17
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Chris Amthor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG> wrote:
>
> > P.S. I know running NetBSD makes one automatically some sort
> > of BDSM fetishist, but I just have to laugh reading all
> > these "I've got an SS2" or "I've got an IPX" postings,
> > given that bare-bones SS20's (with CPU and 64 MB RAM)
> > are going for US $19.00 "Buy It Now" prices on eBay ...
> > c'mon, splurge a little folks ;)
>
> Well, maybe you can get those for peanuts as long as you live in the
> United States.
>
> Here in Europe that peace of plastic that holds the HDD in an SS5 goes
> for nearly the same. Drive not included ;)
That depends on where you are in europe, in the netherlands sparcstations
are cheap and easily available, they've reached thrashfodder stage.
U5/U10's are getting cheap too.
--
Sten Spans
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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