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Old May 16, 2001 | 02:40 PM
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Just been given a working Sun Sparc Station 10 from a site as they knew nothing about it !

It has a 20" monitor an external CD Rom speakers and microphone, mouse and keyb. It looks well featured with 2 isdn ports etc.

I have been told it does have a value, can someone help me. Is anyone interested in it ???

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Old May 16, 2001 | 04:40 PM
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I'm just learning (or trying to learn!) Unix
so I maybe interested in it to aid my training...
Any idea how old it is??

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Old May 16, 2001 | 05:00 PM
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What sort of money we talkin here matey !!!
Old May 16, 2001 | 05:07 PM
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I'd be interested too.. roughly how much are you looking for?
Old May 16, 2001 | 09:59 PM
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I have just powered it up :

SparcStation 10 (1x390z50)
96mb Ram
Sun OS 5.7
Unix System V release 4.01

Cant get pass the password stage !!!
Looking at the versions and dates of the s/w I would say its been used recently...

This afternoon I called a reseller who not knowing the spec offered £450... I dont know the spec either not knowing Unix, the monitor is the one thats sold 2nd hand for £250, looking at some prices on the web these things sell for over a grand !!! Guess I got lucky this week. I am looking for £500. Wow the pwr of the net.. Had it been up to the client this gear would have ended up in the skip....

I am based in Tonbridge Kent, close to the M25 if you want a look or can tell me more about it..

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Old May 17, 2001 | 08:38 AM
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If you don't get any offers from here, Suns tend to go well on Ebay in the Computers/UNIX section (http://www.ebay.co.uk).

Would love to take it off your hands, but have other fish to fry for the next couple of months.

Best of luck,

Simon.
Old May 17, 2001 | 09:30 AM
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Jase, I have some good Sun reseller contacts,let me know if you want any more info. By the way I live in Golden Green - do you know of any local scoobs for sale ?
Old May 17, 2001 | 11:17 AM
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From the description it sounds like a SparcStation 10 Model 41 (40MHz Sparc CPU) launced in 1992 EOL in 1994, unless it's been upgraded it will have a 1.05Gb disk.

The 20inch monitor if Sun Badged and the same age as the workstation, it is not multisync and will only work with a Sun Workstation.

Good luck with trying to get 500stlg there's a Sparc5 110 on sale on ebay.co.uk at the moment for 100stlg which is a better more modern workstation.

P.S I hope you don't get prompted for a password at the OK prompt, as this means the EPROM is password protected and the only solution is to replace the EPROM chip.
 
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