/me too....

I've got a room full of Ultra II's in the building here doing nothing and
I'd gladly donate money towards a dev machine for anyone willing to put the
time into enabling me to use them.

...and it means I'll finally be able to retire my creaky old SS20, too :)

Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org 
> [mailto:port-sparc64-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of Volker A. Brandt
> Sent: 20 June 2005 16:00
> To: Timo Schoeler
> Cc: Vicky Staubly; Michael-John Turner; NetBSD sparc64
> Subject: Re: Sparc 20 hypersparc vs Ultra 2
> 
> > > My favorite site for Sun stuff (www.retrobox.com, from whom I've 
> > > bought a pair of Ultra 1's, and an E450) has several Ultra 2's, 
> > > including this one with a pair of 300MHz U2 cpu's and 1GB RAM:
> > >    
> > > 
> http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/unit_view.asp?id=1139144&bin_id=w
> > > orld
> > > for a mere $90(US) plus shipping.
> > 
> > ouch! hey, they're still way cheaper in the US than here (okay, i 
> > thought/know this). eBay is the cheapest source here with all it's 
> > drawbacks. so when you can get a machine from a dealer that 
> cheap in 
> > the US, i think we should rise the money :)
> > 
> > timo
> > 
> > yes, i'd donate -- is there one able to organize that donations for
> > sparc64 SMP get to this target? furthermore, does michael have time 
> > for this? ;)
> 
> I will also give US$ 10, preferably via PayPal.
> 
> 
> Good luck -- Volker
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> Sun Solaris
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>