Question for my retro workstation followers: What would be a reasonable price to pay for: - Sun Ultra 10, 450MHz CPU module, 1GB RAM, 3D UPA card (completely working) - SPARCstation 20, new SCSI HDD + CDROM, RAM, spare PSU, cables, cards [Ed.: which?]
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @TheMogMiner
Ultra 10s can't even be given away these days. I have 2 just sitting on my Desk
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @AxiomaticRaptor
If only you lived in Sweden then, and within pick-up distance, I might be able to snag one off of you. Unfortunately, the Atlantic Ocean makes that a hassle.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @TheMogMiner ja @AxiomaticRaptor
I don't mean any offense by this, because you clearly had good intentions, but it seems like how a lot of retro-computing conversations go. "I'd like to pick up X hardware, I live in Y, how much should I pay?" "I have X, but don't live in Y." But I do, so what do I do?
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @TheMogMiner ja @AxiomaticRaptor
Well, then a good estimate for the ultra 10 cost would be "what does it cost in freight to ship from someone who is giving one away?"
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @njvack ja @AxiomaticRaptor
This is a weirdly naïve way of looking at it though. There's a burgeoning aftermarket of shady resellers who give precisely zero fucks about retro enthusiasts, and just want to make some coin. So they buy these machines at a premium, then part them out for an even larger premium.
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With the ever-dwindling number of these machines in friendly hands, the opportunities to pick up such machines are minimal nowadays. So at some point it comes time to reckon with such resellers.
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Because Sweden is a small-ass country, and that's about the only option I have for copping a Sun or SGI machine in good, working condition, unless there's some Fort Knox of Sun or SGI machines here in the EU that I don't know about.
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