matthew180 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) I really need to find a new home for this SunBlade 2000 computer. Works great, see photos, as questions. I would like to get $60, or make an offer. I would prefer a local pickup (SoCal, L.A. area), but I'll ship to where ever you want to pay for it. This is a *big* system. Weight is 55 pounds packed, minimum dimensions are 26"x20"x12", my zipcode is 91384. This is a very impressive computer and makes you wish for the days when it was also considered *fast*. The physical build is absolutely impressive, and the quality is second to none. It has SCSI built-in and a lot of other ports. Here is a link to some specs: https://shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/SunBlade2000/spec.html There is a keyboard, but no *Sun* mouse, although any USB mouse works fine. Also included are two CDs (not original media) with Solaris and the Companion disk. The system needs a keyboard, mouse, and network cable plugged in or it will refuse to boot the OS (seems strange, and took me a while to figure that out). Once started, I was surprised to find an old version of FireFox loaded, and a lot of other software I would not have expected. Edited August 23, 2020 by matthew180 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 OH MAN what a beautiful beast! I always loved Sun equipment, and the UltraSparc III is one of their best processors. Running Solaris on these beasts and they will take a beating and still keep walking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwilbar Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Not sure how hard it would be, but that system is capable of a second processor. I too have one of these.... I bought a second processor off eBay and installed it long ago. I never did much with the system however ? I worked for Sun for 3 years, so was very into Sun stuff.... if anyone is every looking for anything Sun related, feel free to PM me. I have stuff mostly from Sun-1 through Sun4d with some Sun4u. Hopefully someone local grabs this. I don't even want to think what this would cost to ship. I think the only heavier Sun's I have is my Sun-1, Sun-2/120, and Sun SparcServer 1000. It is heavy (but managable). I still think though that my SGI Octane is one of the densest (weight/cubic inch) of all my Unix systems ?. Best of luck re-homing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 Yes, this will take a second CPU. I found a few on ebay, but never bought any. As for re-homing, it does not look promising; it seems there is zero interest in old Sun hardware. I'm probably going to take it to a recycler or GoodWill (which is just the same as recycling when it comes to computer hardware), which I hate to do but have little choice. I wish there was an easy way to recover the gold out of this thing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I have pretty much gotten out of Sun stuff. Since Oracle's take-over and it having pretty much taken Solaris out of the hands of hobbyists, I have moved on. I cannot even get Oracle to take my money for support contracts to make my Solaris boxes legit. That and a recent change to Hyper-V makes it incompatible with Solaris or any of its derivatives, so I have to move on to CentOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 I downloaded the FreeBSD SPARC-64 install, but never got around to trying it out. There *are* alternatives to running Solaris on SPARC hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluejay Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) I'm not into computers like this but I'd hate to see it go to waste. Hope someone who can make use of this will take it. Edited August 22, 2020 by bluejay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 5 hours ago, matthew180 said: I downloaded the FreeBSD SPARC-64 install, but never got around to trying it out. There *are* alternatives to running Solaris on SPARC hardware. This is true. But I have mostly moved away from SPARC hardware. I still have a dual Ross 100 which runs as an actual server, but the rest of my machines have been x64 running in Hyper-V. I have two physical machines remaining which I have to retire: an Athlon XP 2800 and a K6-III+. My Sun Love is all in the past. I hope ends up in good hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadir Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Nice machine, back in the day I really wanted one of those. Used to run my website, dns, and e-mail on Sun hardware, with a Sun desktop. ? I'm typing on one of those keyboards (attached to a whitebox PC) right now! Should have an official Sun mouse around here somewhere too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew180 Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 Thanks everyone for the replies, the system has found a new home. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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