[nycbug-talk] OT: Sparcs resale value?

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Anyone familiar with Sparc resale values?
www.ebay.com - there are always lots of them available, and its a fairly 
liquid market. check at completed auctions for 'going values'.

> At a new client and they have two Sparc Enterprise 220R.
> 
> Looking at the web I see that a refurbished one is about $800,but that is 
> with 1 CPU and a 9GB drive. These two machines have 2 CPUs and 2 x 18GB 
> drives.
> 
> Don't know yet if the client wants to sell them, but pretty sure if the 
> price is right he would be interested. :-)
> 
> They actually had FreeBSD on these machines, but all tech people were
> let go.
-alex