Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Pricing a Sun 3/80 system Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1810@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 16:23:09 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 33 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 145, message 3 of 14 In article <1694@brazos.Rice.edu> wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu writes: } X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 135, message 11 of 14 } } I am trying to price a minimal Sun 3/80 system. Buying it all from Sun } one pays roughly: [...] } The bigger disk is the 5 1/4" CDC Wren IV } 94171-344 (with SCSI). Has anyone made the "rounds" and found these } things for a more reasonable price? (A quick glance at Byte shows the } Connor disk for $1000, and an unamed Archive 150M tape for $900, and a } Wren 340meg disk for $2800.) } } Also, while I'm at it, does anyone know if the CDC Wren V 94181-702 works } correctly on the above Sun? The recomended partition tables for this disk } (under SunOS 4.0.3) only indicate 639k total blocks. (I assume these are } 512 byte blocks.) Is there a known problem that prevents one from using } the last ~half of the disk? We use the 702's on 3/50s, 3/60s, 3/260s and SS1's. I think it would be rather safe to assume that it will work on a 3/80. a WrenIV 340 can be purchased from BayState in Cambridge for a lot less than what you quoted above. A WrenV 702 can even be purchased from BayState for less than what you quoted above for the WrenIV 340. Bay-State Computer Group Mike Foley 617-623-3100 mark@DRD.Com (918) 743-3013 Jer. 9:23,24 {uunet,rutgers}!drd!mark