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On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, David Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 07 February 2009 14:34:50 J Wonnacott wrote: >> I'm getting rid of a Sun server, model 3/260. It's about 20 years old and >> has been in the shed for about 10 years. It was working when put there. >> It's about 2' X 1' X 2' and heavy. >> I can even deliver it within reason. >> >> Any takers before it goes the way of William Tell? >> > > It would be a great shame if this got binned... I would love to have it myself > but I really don't have the room (and there's already far too much > floor-space taken up by Sun machines at my parents' house). > > So let's see if I can persuade someone else to take it. Some specs here: > http://sunstuff.org/hardware/systems/sun3/sun3/3-260/ > > 25MHz CPU, Sun-3 architecture. Will run old Solaris/SunOS, may work with > Debian's m68k port (some kernel patching may be required), seems > well-supported by NetBSD. > > I *might* still have a spare Sun monitor someone could have to go with it. Many moons ago, I used some other Sun-3/50 systems as workstations. I think we had a 260 as the central server. Diskless boot, but they did have an external SCSI connector IIRC. 4MB of RAM was standard, but there was 3rd party add-on to take them to 12MB! (You lifted the processor & MMU, put them on the new memory board and plugged that back in!) > Remember: UNIX machines are for life, not just for the 1980s! Well - Yes, but I have to say, nice though they may be, somethings might just be better off left to die. I have a un Ultra-5 worksation, (running an old Debian) 2 enterpreise 2 servers and 2 Ultra 60 servers here (4GB ram in each, dual 360MHz Sparc processors and they might have 18Gb drives too, no CD roms drives). I daren't turn them on now as they suck some 350 watts each )-: Free to anyone who wants them - I can't even get rid of them on eBay becuase the postage is too much... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html