From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 13:09:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA18825 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (dynamic44.pm05.san-mateo.best.com [205.149.176.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA18816 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:08:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA17718; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:40:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971210124021.52222@mooseriver.com> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:40:21 -0800 From: Josef Grosch To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Reply-To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 02:57:35PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Jason Evans wrote: > [ DELETED ] > > I would also be a little curious about the availability of sparc hardware > for hobbyist folk. Few of us can afford $10K servers, but what other kind > of more modest setups might be available? I know you probably aren't a > walking database of such things, but if you come up with occaisonal > pointers to folks selling motherboards that might fit into pc cases, and > maybe use PCI, and the location of sparc docs on the web, it'd be nice to > post such things. I'd read them, and probably lots of others would too. > It's likely (working where you do) that you'd be more likely to fall into > that kind of info than I would. > I have been looking around for used SPARC equipment recently. I have been seeing SPARC 5 with a 1 or 2 gig drive, 64 meg of ram and no monitor going for between $900.00 and $1500.00. I have seen SPARC 2, IPC, and IPX going for in the $500.00 to $1000.00 range. This, of course, depends on how much memory and disk the system has and how much the owner thinks it worth. Sun monitors are _DAMED_ expensive. I have yet to see one for under $1500.00. I will most likely end up running mine headless. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.5 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses