On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:
>: Yah, but a cool toy it is.  I firmly believe that its big brother,
>: the SS2, was probably Sun's Last Great Workhorse.  A 40MHz SS2 still
>: makes a very decent mail+dns server or workstation.
>
>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!

  See, the wintel world *is* good for something...it makes real computers
affordable for the rest of us!

                    -Dave McGuire