Joshua Tinnin wrote:
>I have recently come across some hardware which was given to an
>associate of mine some time ago, from a business where he worked that
>was closing down. Quite a bit of the hardware is test equipment and
>cryptography oriented (I'm not familiar with much of the latter). But
>it appears this office ran Sun hardware and software, so there are a
>number of older Sun workstations and servers, along with hubs and so
>forth. I'm guessing the age of most of this equipment is late '90s or
>earlier. Along with these are a few very large Sun storage arrays,
>probably 3'x3'x4' in size (I'm guessing they're SCSI, but not sure).
>I'm not sure if the arrays are populated, but from what this person
>says at least one of them is, but I'm not overly familiar with these.
>My question is, do people still use or need such hardware anymore,
>particularly the arrays, considering their age? I know Sun equipment
>will re-sell for some time, but I'm not at all sure what the age of
>usefulness of large arrays is. I've already snagged a few Intel and
>Sparc workstations to use for my home network, mostly to see if FreeBSD
>will play nice with them, but if it will I'll use them. Many more are
>available, as well as quite a few Sun monitors, many of them over 20".
>I'm not trying to hawk stuff here, as my interest is mostly in what can
>be done with such equipment, but if anyone's interested let me know, as
>it's going cheap. Also, does anyone know of people who need/use
>cryptographic hardware anymore?
>
>- jt
>
>
Last time I visited Greg Lehey's site (www.lemis.com), he
mentioned that he had some storage arrays in the "Mike
Smith Memorial Room" (Old hardware). I can't remember
if they were Sun stuff or not, but IIRC he was interested in
finding power supplies for them....
You might check out his page first ;-)
Kevin Kinsey
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