[Gllug] Sale - only a month late - Part one Sun Microsystems kit

[tet at accucard.com]

>Not being over familiar with Sparcs, what sort of keyboard/mouse do they
>need? 

It varies depending on model. The old 32 bit SPARCs used their own
proprietary keyboards. Some of the newer models apparently used a
standard PS2 PC keyboard, but I'm not sure which. The very newest
models (e.g., the Sun Blade series) use USB keyboards. But the
Ultra 5s that are on offer here use Sun keyboards. If you're
looking around on ebay or similar, the magic phrase to look for
is "Sun type 5 keyboard".

Note that the Ultra 5 is a very half hearted machine, compared to
other SPARCs. Sun basically cut out all the goodies in order to get
it down to a price point that was competitive with PCs, using IDE
instead of SCSI, for example, and a low end graphics card. Still,
at least they left a decent amount of cache, unlike the Blade 100.

At 450 quid, these are IMHO a fair bit overpriced for what you're
getting (a second hand, old, slow machine, for which you'll need
to buy an extra keyboard and mouse).

Tet

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