On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:58:54PM -0700, Rick Kelly wrote:

> >     That's rediculous.  You can get one for a third of that on eBay.
> >Heck, you can buy a brand new SunBlade 100 for $995 (single processor
> >only; but, a newer generation and running at 500MHz, so probably
> >faster).  It's amazing what some of the used dealers try to get away
> >with.
> 
> That was an Ultra 2, dual 300Mhz, dual 16gig drives, 256MB memory, and
> a 1 year warranty. It is actually refurbished as opposed to some junk
> that someone sells on ebay.

Who sells this machine?

> The SunBlade 100 looks like it is really cheaply built, while Sun PCI
> cards, which you need if you are running Solaris, cost as much as the
> box itself. 

I was disappointed in these machines, but they are still better than
most PC systems.  You can build nice PC systems yourself, but I have
yet to see one pre-built that was very good.

Some people report success with Intel PCI cards in Sun and Mac systems
by flashing a new ROM in them.  Unfortunately, a lot of manufacturers
don't supply the various ROM images, but evidently some people have
managed to find them.

It's too bad the industry didn't really follow through with the universal
ROM proposals of a few years back.

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