In article 19281@aio.jsc.nasa.gov, liles@pat.mdc.com (Clifton Liles ) writes:
>I called Pinnacle and found out they will trade a Clone SPARC II motherboard with
>the Weitek chip in it for your old mother board ( with CPU, but sans memory).
>I found an add which says from $1,895 (I dont't know what this is for)
>For a SPARC 1+ they want $3195.
>
>SPARC 1, 1+ & SLC $3195.00
>SPARC 2, and IPX ? ( This must/may be the $1895)
>SPARC ELC ?
>
this $1895 to upgrade a SPARC2 board to a clone board w/ POWERuP seems a bit
steep considering you can ostensibly just buy the new CPU, stick it in yourself,
and be left with the old CPU for your dartboard or something....for $1500!!
As for the $3195 for a SPARC1 -> SPARC2clone/POWERuP, other clone manufacturers
offer SPARC1 -> regular SPARC2 for about $1450 (sunar@netcom.com ??)
which, with the CPU purchase for $1500, comes to about 3300, but again, you have
a SPARC2 CPU in your hand.....(they'll sell you the board for about $1800)...
-> I don't know anthing about Sunar or their product, except the quoted
prices, which may be off/out-of-date/poorly-remembered...`
What's the deal here??
Isn't anyone coming out with a clone board with the POWERuP which can be had via
upgrade/trade-in for around $2000 (fair??)
Isn't anyone just selling such a board for around 2500-3000 ???
(Rhetorical: Am I an idiot for expecting it??)
Pat Dowler
UVic Astronomy
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