Re: Selling or giving away my IPX + monitor

Ari Johnson wrote:
Dave <foo@xxxxxxx> writes:

Ari Johnson wrote:
I am looking at passing along my SparcStation IPX and the monitor that
I got with it many years ago. It has been in storage for the past 8
years, although I took it out to make sure it still works just this
week. I also put a fresh installation of OpenBSD 4.2 on it.

Please e-mail me if you are interested in any of these items. All
reasonable offers will be entertained, with the one requirement being
that the recipient has to cover my costs of packing and shipping the
items (especially the monitor!) Thanks!
I doubt very much you will find anyone wishing to buy either. There
have been numerous reports of people being unable to give monitors
away. And much quicker machines than IPXs are often available free.

I know it's a long shot, but this machine deserves a better home than
my garage shelving and I don't want to throw the monitor away while I
still own the machine, so the long shot is worth taking. :)


Unless one is simply a collector of old hardware for nostalgic reasons, there is really no good reason to use an IPX.

* Disk sizes are small and the disks old, so likely to be unrelieable. Hard to get disks to fit now.

* Very slow by todays standards

* Will not run Solaris 10, and I suspect would struggle with some of the late versions of Solaris anyway.

* Much better machines available free.


That is not to say they cant be found on eBay. This person is even selling a system board for one


http://cgi.ebay.com/SUN-501-1780-SUN-SPARC-IPX-SYS-BOARD_W0QQitemZ190019074920QQihZ009QQcategoryZ1479QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247


Strange to try to sell a system board for $180, when complete IPX's can be found on eBay for $9.95 and often free if you ask on newsgroups.

That said, someone had some X1195A CPUs on eBay recently for over $500. I bought three, at $12 each!




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