I'm not working at present but an SS20 case would be cool! :-) Could do a full conversion on it just for fun. I put a pentium system in a dead IIsi once, drove several people a little crazy. Something about calling Steve Job's, havening me strung up, and must be on satans side... ;-) If anyone wants to get rid of an old sparq system that would be fun. Adam Maloney wrote: >That reminds me. > >I have an SS-20 that died on me (SCSI controller on mainboard released >the magic blue smoke). If anyone wants to salvage any of the parts for >a really good price, please let me know. > >I believe I had: > >256MB RAM >(2) 90MHz Ross HyperSparc processors >(2) small (1 or 2GB) SCSI disks >(1) drivesled >(1) drivesled made of lego's, rubber bands, and a piece of paper* > >And obviously, the SS20 pizza box, NVRAM, and dead board > >*Piece of paper not included. Lego(tm) drivesled also compatible with >the IBM PS/2 and DEC Avanti systems. Lego is a registered trademark of >Lego Corporation, Denmark. May void warranty. Piece of paper may catch >fire. WARNING: Use of Lego drive-sled may attract Lego-men, Lego-women, >and Lego-horses, which could result in a small but advanced Lego >civilization forming in your computer. Safe and humane removal of Lego >villages is the customer's responsibility. > >I also seem to be stockpiling SBus framebuffers. I must have half a >dozen at least, and I've never bothered to purchase the Sun->VGA >adapter, so I've always just pulled them out of my boxes and threw them >into storage. > >I really got the shaft on this thing. I bought it at a really good >price a couple of years ago, and decided to double the ram and buy a >second processor for it. About 3 months after the upgrade the board >died. Rather than try and replace the board, I just moved to an Ultra >and left the SS20 in the closet. If anyone wants to try and find an >SS-20 board, I'll part with the system as-is cheap. Or if you know >where I can get a *really* good deal on the board myself, I may buy it >and resurrect the machine at home. > >On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 16:05, Michael H. Jentges wrote: > > >>I likely have something in that range, but I think it cost me more like >>$30 from eBay, and I can sell it to a customer for that (eventually) so >>I can't see letting go for less. Whether that makes me stupid or not, I >>don't know but if you want to look at something like that just holler >>and I'll pillage the piles. Perhaps you have something to trade? IIRC, >>you had some stuff a while back? >> >>I could REALLY use some sparc5 bits and pieces. :) >> >>Drivesled(s) & RAM. Not a whole heap, these are just >>experimental/educational machines. >> >>BTW, does anyone know if they need a video card physically installed to >>run or does it blow by that because of the serial console thing? >> >>Thanks... >> >>-mj >> >>Sam MacDonald wrote: >> >> >> >>>Does anyone have a 10 - 20 gig (used) hard disk? >>>I'll can pay $20 for it. I'm afraid the old SCSI disks in my machine >>>are going to die. >>> >>>Sam >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > >Adam Maloney >Systems Administrator >Sihope Communications > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list