Selling or giving away my IPX + monitor
Ari Johnson
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!
Sun SparcStation IPX. Details:
- in an enclosure labeled for the IPC, but this is
an IPX (cgsix graphics, etc.)
- 32MB RAM
- 1010MB internal hard drive
- dead nvram battery (replacement can easily be had for $20-30 with
some help from Froogle; cold reboots require entering in some
boot monitor commands which I have printed out and keep with
the machine; all reboots default to network even if disk is
selected so you have to Stop-A (or send a Break if on the
serial console) and 'boot disk')
- working floppy drive
- includes 10Base-T AUI converter
I will throw in a serial cable that will connect this machine with a
9-pin DIN connector, such as on a PC, for serial console purposes, in
case you don't want the monitor.
Sun HM-4119-S-DA-OL monitor. Details:
- 19"
- all controls on rear
- beige housing
- Hitachi-made
- gigantic
- heavy
- dated September, 1990
- possibly responsible for the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald due
to weight
- works great!
13W3 cable, Sun-branded, slightly damaged connectors - with some
finagling, you can get it working perfectly, but if you don't spend a
few minutes getting it hooked up you end up with white => yellow color
translation.
Sun Type 5 keyboard with cable
Sun Type 5 optical mouse with mousepad in mint condition
CD-ROM drive, cartridge type, possibly Sun-bootable but I don't have
any Solaris installation CD to check with. I'll throw in an
HD50-to-CN50 connector to hook it up to the IPX with if you get both.
A Solaris 2.5.1 Desktop SPARC Platform Edition box with several
books/manuals, leaflets, and two CDs in a Solaris CD folder:
- Updates for SOLARIS Operating Environment 2.5.1 SPARC
- Desktop 1.1 (Common Desktop Environment 1.0.2, ODBC Driver
Manager 2.11, Wabi 2.2), SPARC / x86 / PowerPC Platform Edition
(I got this set with the IPX and I think it may have been intended to
include the Solaris 2.5.1 operating environment install CDs, but it
does not. The machine originally ran 2.5.1, but when I got the IPX
it had an external hard drive containing /usr and no cable, nor could
I find one without much traveling, so I impatiently installed OpenBSD
on it and never looked back.)
Dave
> 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.
Ari Johnson
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. :)
Dave
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
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!