Re: SPARCstation 5 - where to start?

[gavin.walker@example.com]

There's a link to a very small amount of Sun kit too:

http://www.ottonet.co.jp/top/menu/TOP_M0200.htm

Ultra 5 for 10 Man, although they had an ad outside the shop saying 6...


Gavin





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Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> SN_Diamond (Norman.Diamond@example.com) wrote:
>
> > I visited the shop several times, and often look at their web page.  A lot
> > of their used stuff is priced higher than new stuff.  Maybe it depends on
> > how many years the stuff has been sitting on the shelves.
>
> Not unless you think an SS-20 with 64 meg, color FB, a 1 or 2 GB disk and
> a CD-ROM for about 35,000 yen is priced higher than new.  Their SGI
> kit also is priced quite low.  If anything, they seem to be the
> low-price leader on used

-->  Sun & SGI  <--

> gear.

Could be.  I've occasionally noticed some used old old old Sun stuff in
Akihabara but had no reason to look closely.  Haven't noticed used
not-so-old Sun stuff but you could be right about that.

> Are you sure we're talking about the same place?

Otto.

> What did you see there that was priced higher than new?

PC stuff on their shelves and PC stuff on
http://www.ottonet.co.jp/used/20010.HTM
for example.

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