Unix on old-ish machines - advice sought

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 02:18:29 -0400
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2005 1:37 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> > Shoot, systems a lot better than those are free or almost free.  I
> > got my Sun Ultra 60/2300 basically for free from a friend. 
> 
> Wow!  I wish I had friends like that.  I'd be happy for an Ultra5 for
> free or nearly free.
> 

I walked out of the auction about a year ago to haul some old Zenith
laptops to the car that I had purchased.  When I got back into the
building, the whole skid, with at least 20 or so Ultra 5/10/20 machines
on it was just closing.  The final bid was $100, before I could get in
to raise it.  To make it even worse, at the next auction at that
location, someone who knew the buyer told me 'he couldn't figure any of
those systems out and just scrapped it all.'

I still can make myself angry by thinking about that incident.  I was
completely unaware the next items up for bid were going to be those
skids.

-Scott