Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Pricing a Sun 3/80 system Message-ID: <1694@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 02:28:52 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 27 Keywords: Miscellaneous Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu 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: Base 3/80 w. 19" BW Monitor $7000 QIC-150 150M tape $1600 104Meg 3-1/2" disk $2200 ea. (up to 2 internally) 327 Meg disk $5600 Media and Manuals $ 600 Now, from what I can tell, the tape drive is the Archive Viper with an embedded SCSI controller. The small disk is the Connor CP-3100 3-1/2" drive, also with embedded SCSI. 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? -wolfgang Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (703) 768-2640 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang