Subject: Re: making old sparcs run fast
To: Tim Walls <tim.walls@pa.press.net>
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/03/2001 19:48:38
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:58:14PM +0100, Tim Walls wrote:
> Looks quite interesting - does anyone have any experience of actually
> buying/using their stuff (esp. w/NetBSD!!)  A new motherboard would
> do my poor old Classic no harm at all (hell, it might even be able to
> manage a web browser with the 170MHz Sparc in it ;-)
> 
> Couldn't get their online store to work though, so dunno about 
> the prices...

I looked at the SS2 upgrade boards (essentially an SS5 that fits in an SS2
chassis and takes regular 72-pin peecee memory), and they were all $1k+.

For that sort of money I can get a seriously tooled-up SS10/SS20/U1 on Ebay,
or a new Blade100 or X1, so I gave it a miss.

Regards,
Tim.