On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 10:22, you wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 02:46 am, Peter Elliott wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:21:07 +1200 > > > > Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I went in today to Molten Media and was told by one of the staff
[ ... ] > None taken. I was quoted figures in that range being quoted in ebay when I > first raised this matter on this list. > > Then there's the rarity of the hardware - Sparcstations are nowhere near as > common as Wintel PCs, so I feel that does justify a somewhat higher price. Actually no, In PC saturated Christchurch they are so rare that hardly anybody knows anything about them. Solaris Unix - What's that? been replaced by NT and Linux hasn't it? > You are free of course to negotiate it down. In fact I'd expect you to do > so. As you have just discoverd they really have no commercial value whatsoever, particularly as there is no operating system. They are so old that you can kiss any notion of a maintenance contract goodbye. So in a commercial situation they honestly don't have any value at all. Molten Media had an early model SparcStation with a rather nice big screen a while ago and it ended up out on the pavement with a sign which said "Please Take Me Home" or words to that effect. The SparcStation Is are really of no value at all and should be dismantled & recycled. The later models might have a value literally a few dollars above the intrinsic scrap value, but not by much. I would give or find a few of the later models good homes, but that's all I can honestly offer. Ferrymead Museum might be interested in one as a gift. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
