[rescue] Sun Ultra5 emulation, was: more sun2 adventures!

[Robert Toegel]

I actually use an Ultra 60 as a stool when I'm playing with my Ultra 80.
Yep.  Sturdy

Bob

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 19:39 Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com wrote:

> On 1/8/19 5:31 PM, Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
> >> Yep, the 10s tend to be rarer and hence more expensive and will I guess
> >> increase as they become harder to find...
> >
> > Why is this the case?  Is there something about the Ultra 10 in
> > particular that makes them particularly desirable?  Or are they prone to
> > fail more quickly?  What's behind this proposition?  :-)
>
>   The Ultra5 and the Ultra10 are actually both fairly crappy machines,
> as Sun hardware goes.  Among their worse/cheapest/thinnest sheet metal
> designs.  I've accidentally crushed an Ultra10 by putting a
> not-too-heavy box on top of it, whereas fat-ass me can STAND on an
> Ultra2 or an Ultra60 with no ill effects.
>
>           -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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