The ($70) Ultra Lives!!

Posted on Jan 24, 2006

A while back I mentioned that I had managed to get an Ultra 60 for $70. It seemed that the graphics card was crocked, but after hunting around some Sun forums I tried hitting Stop+N to zap the NVRAM.

Voila! It not POSTs just fine and I managed to boot the Solaris 10 installer from the SCSI CD I pulled from the Origin 200 (the Ultra60 did not come with one). Now that it posts, I know what I got for my $70:

1 x 360Mhz SPARC Ultra w/4MB L2 Cache ($290)
1 GB RAM ($60)
18GB SCSI HD ($80)
Creator 3D Graphics Card ($30)
PCI Ethernet Card ($20)

So, all in all, not a bad deal really – I’ll do the Sol 10 install tomorrow and we’ll see how it performs.

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