Walter,

In some ways it almost sounds like you're describing my
'collection' except the newest thing I have is a U60
but I have a 2/120, 386i (3 of 'em), 486i, 3/50, 3/60,
3/80, an x/x50 chassis that I'll probably make into a
3/450 (pegasus in a smaller chassis), etc

The netharlands is too far to ship anything but if
you divide things up I'm interested in boards for
my sun2/120 provided you have any (memory, graphics, cpu,
net, etc).

I should shrink my collection but it's tough
what goes ? what stays ? too many choices
-- Curt

Fri, 2006-01-13 at 08:40, Walter Belgers wrote:
Hi all,

I have been collecting Sun systems and software for a bout 10 years now
(I started with "computers", then specialised on "UNIX" and later on
"Sun" because it became too much). I am currently running out of space
to store my Suns and am thinking about getting rid of them and only
keeping the software for my S collection.

I am hoping to get "some" money for it, as I have paid to get many items
(although some I got for free) and some items are pretty rare.

Would anybody here have thoughts on:
- if it is feasible to sell the collection as a whole?
does anybody have experience?
- would you recommend selling via eBay?
- would you recommend ripping out the parts and selling those (memory,
sbus cards, NVRAMs are easier to ship and may be more in demand than
complete systems)

The collection consists of (probably more, I am doing this by memory):
(all machines are well-equipped, like colour boards in 3/60, VSIMMs in SS10
and SS20 (8Mb), extra SBUS cards (SCSI, network) in all of them, dual-proc
where possible, memory expansions in Sun 3's):
- Sun 2: Sun 2/50 and some 2/110 parts/boards
- Sun 3: Sun 3/50 (several), Sun 3/60 (several, also with built-in
harddisk, some with coprocessor, some with colour graphics),
Sun 3/80, Sun 3/160
- Sun 4 pizzabox: SS1, SS1+ (several), SS2, SS4 (several), SS5 (several),
SS10 (several), SS20 (both station and server), Xterminal-1
- Sun 4 lunchbox: IPX, IPC, Classic, ClassicX, LX (+ a bunch of spare
lunchboxes)
- Sun 4: ELC, SLC, big 4/3x0 server, SS1000, Voyager (b/w)
- Clones: Axil (SS10), Solair (SS1), Solais (SS5), Fujitsu (SS5)
- Ultra: U1, U2, U5 (several), U10, U30 (several)
- Sun i386/250
- Enterprise 3500 (6x250Mhz, 3GB, 10x9GB)
- Enterprise E450 (4x400MHz, 2GB, 10x18GB+10x36GB )
- Blade 100, Blade 150
- SunRay 1, SunRay 100
- Sparcbook 1, Sparcbook 3
- Javastation-1 ("brick"), Javastation-NC ("krups")
- Parts: several monitors, including several ECL monitors, microphones,
webcams, shoeboxes, all possible enclosures (cdrom, QIC tape, 1xdisk,
1x fullheight disk, 4x disk, 12xdisk), multi-serial extension (with
cable and sbus card), many CPUs, SIMMs, disk brackets, disks
- Many, many sbus cards (including many 100Mbps cards, video, token
ring, digitizer, fiber, )
- sbus SunPC cards (486, pentium), pci SunPC cards (400MHz, 600MHz)
- gigabit (sbus/fiber (several), pci/ethernet)
- bunch of mice, keyboard, cables (type 2, type 3, type 4, type 5),
- manuals: full SS 4 manual set, several system books (full i386
books, SS1 books etc)

All this stuff is located in the Netherlands. Sun Netherlands does not
seem to be interested.

Cheers,
Walter.

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Sat, 2006-01-14 at 03:22, Walter Belgers wrote:
You don't happen to have the Symbolics add-in card for Sun, do you? IIRC it was a VME card and you talked to it over TCP/IP and X Windows.
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Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:41:35PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:51:30AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
You don't happen to have the Symbolics add-in card for Sun, do you? IIRC
it was a VME card and you talked to it over TCP/IP and X Windows.

A UX board!

See:
http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~

(also: http://www.lispmachine.net , which I run)

I want a MacIvory board (goes in a Mac IIfx/Quadra) *so* bad, but they're
$900 from Symbolics. 8-(

A few years ago (2002-2003ish I guess) you could still get a UX-400 from
Symbolics, but they would provide no guaranty that it worked, and
indicated that they wouldn't be able to provide much help with it
either.

In many ways, I'd rather have a UX-400 or UX-1200 than a MacIvory.

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