[TriLUG] cheap big endian computer.

[Andrew Perrin]

I've got an old Sparc IPC if you want it. It boots linux
(debian) fine. Its DRAM battery is gone, which means you either have to:

1.) Type an arcane series of numbers every time you boot up; or
2.) Buy a new DRAM (about $39).

I've got the box, with a new hard drive in it, keyboard, mouse, ethernet
transceiever (fat-ethernet to 10BaseT) and an adapter for the framebuffer
so you can display on a standard VGA-style monitor. I've also got debian
potato install disks for it, but you'll have to plug a SCSI CD-ROM into it
to boot them.  Make me an offer :)

ap

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 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, H Brett Bolen wrote:

> Does anybody have a suggestion on a cheap big endian computer that
> can run linux?
> 
> I've seen dec multias on ebay for under 50 bucks.  isn't the alpha
> a big endian computer?
> 
> I want to be able to boot linux and run some tests on a corba
> compiler we are writing.  It doesn't have to be fast ( I'd like
> X, but even telnet access would probably be fine), as long as
> it runs gcc, boot linux, and has network access ( and cheap
> too).
> 
> Has anybody gotten one of the cheap alpha or sparc boxes to run
> linux?  How much memory is required for the os and an app or two.
> How about an old Mac?
> 
> b\375
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