[Gllug] OT: Swapping ThinkPad 560E for a Sparc 5

[Formi]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of the last bit, about the detection of
keyboard/monitor.

But as I said I prefer all the bits, I'm thinking right now I don't
believe it is really easy to find keyboards/mice, so I prefer to
have them just in case in the future I decide to use it as a desktop.

I shouldn't mention I have to move a lot of stuff before being able
to get to my bed...

Well I also have a desktop buried under some tons of clothes, that I
wouldn't mind getting rid of:

AMD K6-500
Asus P5A motherboard
128Mb Ram, 30GB hard disk
Matrox Mystique 220
17" Monitor, 3Com NIC Soundblaster 128PCI

That is basically collecting dust when I'm not installing mdk or
freebsd, used just as a nfs server.

By the way it's just an idea, but I'm thinking about setting up a
"junk swap site" for the gllug + lonix people...

If somebody has ideas about how to implement this, mail me.


Formi
FreeBSD 4.7 ThinkPad 570
Linux Registered User #235743

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ian Northeast wrote:

> Formi wrote:
> >
> >  Sorry, but one of the things I want to avoid is having to hunt for bits.
> >  And none of those sparc 5s are complete. If you prefer I send you £30 and
> >  you send me back one machine ready to plug, and use.
>
> True, I think 10 quid even for an SS5 is pushing it a bit for a
> reasonable one. You should be able to find one fairly cheap though,
> certainly for less than your TP is worth.
>
> The problem with your plan is that it depends on someone on this
> relatively small list both having an old SPARC they don't want and
> wanting a rather crap laptop. This isn't very likely IMO. For instance,
> my old SPARC isn't quite up to what you want, I don't want to get rid of
> it and I have no use for another low spec laptop, I already have three.
>
> You might have a bit more luck on uk.adverts.computer, a much wider
> audience if less specialised. There are a lot of dealers there, and you
> are offering quite a good deal.
>
> BTW why do you want a keyboard, no monitor and a serial cable? I assume
> you want the serial cable to connect a console; if so you don't need a
> keyboard. A SPARC uses the presence or absence of a keyboard to decide
> whether to use its own keyboard/monitor as the console or the serial
> port. If there's a keyboard attached it will try to use the frame buffer
> as the output device.
>
> Regards, Ian
>
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