Subject: Re: Dead Sparcbooks available free in Silicon Valley, CA
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/29/2006 13:29:38
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 09:06:54PM -0700, Ben Cottrell wrote:
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> I have about a half dozen or so dead Sparcbooks (all 3 series,
> which means they'll run NetBSD). Some of them won't boot, some of
> them will boot but have video problems, one of them seems to work
> okay but has a broken case (cannot be picked up casually by one
> side, needs two hands). Someone who knows a lot more about
> miniaturized electronics than I do could probably cobble together
> at least a couple of working units.
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> Anyone good at fixing laptops, is near Sunnyvale, California, and
> wants to give it a shot?

You might want to post this to the sparcbook mailing list
(sparcbook@sunhelp.org), I'm sure someone there might be interested, or
be able to offer up some help.

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Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org