[dundee] Sun Gear For Sale (Part 1)

[Simon Wells]

Hi Guys,

I am thinning out my Sun collection a little, as I running out of  
space (both at work & home), so there are a number of items that will  
come up for grabs over the next few days & weeks. I thought that local  
Linux users might like to get first dibs before the ebay bargain  
hunters, so here goes...

1. First up is a Sun Ultra 80 Workstation (4x450MHz USII, 2GB RAM,  
2*50GB SCSI HDD, Creator 3D). This was Suns top multiprocessor  
workstation a few years back and represented the pinnacle of the old  
Ultra workstation line. They are actually quite rare in the second  
hand market and only come up for sale on an infrequent basis. I am  
looking for about £275 for this but we can chat off the list and maybe  
strike a deal.

2. Second up, I have a Sun Enterprise E420R rack-mount server  
(2*450MHz USII, 4GB RAM, 2*18.2GB SCSI HDD). I am looking for around  
£125 for this but again we can discuss a deal.

If you want to buy the two then I would accept about £350 but am open  
to offers so you might get a bargain.

The parts are pretty much interchangeable between the two as the ultra  
80 is merely an e420r server in a quiet desktop case. So you can move  
RAM, CPU, HDD, Motherboard, &c., about between the two to create a  
useful desktop/server combination. Or keep one as spares for the other.

Either machines will run Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, &c. I currently have  
the Ultra80 running Debian Sparc 4.0r3 with a Fluxbox desktop and it  
is a very useable and reliable machine if you want to experiment with  
running a different architecture to x86 or just want some reliable  
bomb-proof hardware.

If anyone is interested or wants to find out more then send me an  
email and we can discuss stuff.

Simon
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