I've seen this with some older Sun servers, notably the Sparcserver 600mp.
The boards are *so* expensive from price-gouging resellers, that someone
with one of these systems in a mission-critical role, and planning to have
the machine in that capacity for some time to come, would do pretty well
buying one for a couple of hundred bucks.

My experience with a 600MP came when I offered the board on a Sun
newsgroup with a Supersparc module on it; I got an offer for a couple of
hundred bucks (which surprised me, since I got it for free) within the
first 30 minutes it was posted. I checked the guy's website and he had one
already for sale for $900. I ended up giving it away to a guy who happened
to have the VME chassis for it still shrink-wrapped to the pallet in his
garage...

Cheers,

Aaron

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Bruce Toback wrote:

> Stan wrote:
>
> >> Yes, the 3000/42 starts at *only* $1500...
> >
> >I already wrote to the seller, telling him that he's a little high
> >on the market value of a 42.   Like about $1500 high :)
>
> What's funny isn't that someone uninitiated might have thought that 700
> pounds of computer gear might be worth $1,500, but that the seller
> asserts "the boards alone are worth more than the price."
>
> I think it's interesting that the Series 37 has gotten a $150 bid --
> effectively $190 with the seller's shipping charge.
>
> -- Bruce
>
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