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05-02-2008, 05:00 AM
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 Re: Sun SPARCStation 20. John Burns wrote: > If anyone in the UK wants to play with dual cpu Suns I have an SS10 that > I'd love to give away rather than bin! > I used to work with a guy from Canada, who told me they had an excellent scheme for things like this. Basically on one day per year, you put outside your house any items you did not want, but thought others might - like the SS10. The stuff stayed there for 3 days, during which time anyone would look around, find anything of interest and take it. After the 3 days, the local council collected the rest and it was recycled or taken to the landfill I recall once when I was at work we had some stuff (forget what, but at least one had a CRT) which we no longer needed in the lab. I stuck an email around the department saying anyone could collect it if they wanted it. Someone emailed me to say I should not do this, but instead cut off the power cords, and smash the necks of the CRTs to make them inopperable. Unfortunately, there seems to be quite a few like that, who view the risks of being sued if someone manages to injure them self.      |
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05-07-2008, 10:11 AM
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| Re: Sun SPARCStation 20. retrocomtoday@aol.com wrote: >> You can offload web or other network services to an SS20. It's probably >> a bit slow for a desktop box these days. > Oh, I'm not worried about the speed. The other computer that I picked > up today was a 1Mhz, 32K Commodore 8096-SK (basically an 80-columns > PET), with dual 5.25" floppy disk drive and a printer. Not got much > use for the printer to be honest, but it was in with the bundle. I > also own a few other 8-bits, just for fun ;-) The Sparcstation 20 is not going to be an impressive workstation however it will run apache and named just fine and you can lock it down tight with Solaris 9. We pulled our last one out of production just a few months ago but we are keeping them for backups if the newer hardware fails and for disaster recovery. -tim http://web.abnormal.com |
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05-10-2008, 01:57 PM
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| Re: Sun SPARCStation 20. Hi, Tim Hogard wrote: > retrocomtoday@aol.com wrote: >>> You can offload web or other network services to an SS20. It's probably >>> a bit slow for a desktop box these days. >> Oh, I'm not worried about the speed. The other computer that I picked >> up today was a 1Mhz, 32K Commodore 8096-SK (basically an 80-columns >> PET), with dual 5.25" floppy disk drive and a printer. Not got much >> use for the printer to be honest, but it was in with the bundle. I >> also own a few other 8-bits, just for fun ;-) > > The Sparcstation 20 is not going to be an impressive workstation > however it will run apache and named just fine and you can lock it > down tight with Solaris 9. > > We pulled our last one out of production just a few months ago but > we are keeping them for backups if the newer hardware fails and for > disaster recovery. > > -tim > http://web.abnormal.com We still have two SS20 on S8 and S7 for HW schematic tools, works perfectly. /michael |
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05-10-2008, 01:57 PM
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| Re: Sun SPARCStation 20. Michael Laajanen <michael_laajanen@yahoo.com> writes: >Hi, >Tim Hogard wrote: >> retrocomtoday@aol.com wrote: >>>> You can offload web or other network services to an SS20. It's probably >>>> a bit slow for a desktop box these days. >>> Oh, I'm not worried about the speed. The other computer that I picked >>> up today was a 1Mhz, 32K Commodore 8096-SK (basically an 80-columns >>> PET), with dual 5.25" floppy disk drive and a printer. Not got much >>> use for the printer to be honest, but it was in with the bundle. I >>> also own a few other 8-bits, just for fun ;-) >> >> The Sparcstation 20 is not going to be an impressive workstation >> however it will run apache and named just fine and you can lock it >> down tight with Solaris 9. >> >> We pulled our last one out of production just a few months ago but >> we are keeping them for backups if the newer hardware fails and for >> disaster recovery. >> >> -tim >> http://web.abnormal.com >We still have two SS20 on S8 and S7 for HW schematic tools, works perfectly. And they make perfect small servers for just about any application. Solaris 8 is the best version of Solaris for the SS20's, but I like to run NetBSD on them too. Thinking about trying BSD out on an old MIPS-based Raq2 (pre-Sun purchase of Cobalt Networks) as well. Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web @ "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email 2 "cdewick@lios.apana.org.au". SunShack @ "http://www.sunshack.org" Galleries @ "http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2". Also lots of tech data, etc. Sun Microsystems webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu". |
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05-10-2008, 01:57 PM
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| Re: Sun SPARCStation 20. Michael Laajanen <michael_laajanen@yahoo.com> wrote: > We still have two SS20 on S8 and S7 for HW schematic tools, works perfectly. We took ours out of the rack because the pair of them took 4RU but one was getting a bit slow. We still have SS1000 thats crusing along but we can't pull it out since we have heavy stuff stacked on it. -tim http://web.abnormal.com |
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