[geeks] PCI ultra 1 on ebay

[Ken Hansen]

I'm concerned about the PROM issue the seller discusses...

Is it possible the PROM image has a "stop working after" date (since this was never meant to be a public machine)?

Seems to me, this machine is almost the worst of all worlds:

	- Ultra machine uses expensive RAM
	  (compared with Sun Blade 100)
	- Slowest of the Ultra CPUs (170 MHz)
	- Most expensive of expansion options
	  (PCI SPARC cards cost more than SBUS versions)
	- Solaris 8 is not supported (as shipped)
	- And, an OpenBoot PROM that may expire soon,
	  with almost no chance of an upgrade  available
	  from Sun ("How'd you get one of those boxes?")

Beyond novelty, this is *less* valuable than a stock Ultra 1/170e IMHO.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:23 PM
To: geeks at mrbill.net; rescue at mrbill.net
Subject: [geeks] PCI ultra 1 on ebay


http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1231091443

Looks like a few of these made it out into the wild; I've seen a couple
before... but yes, its a PCI-based Ultra 1.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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