anybody want a Sun with a 21" CRT?

[pm215]

My flat has accumulated quite a large number of machines; since they've now overflowed into the sitting room I ought to try to get rid of them somehow. Does anybody want a Sun Sparcstation 2 (or alternatively an IPX) with a 21" (fixed freq, sync on green) CRT? Runs Debian (woody), makes a reasonable X terminal if you're happy with 8 bit colour. I've got an SGI Indy I could probably stand to get rid of too.

Alternatively, does anybody have any hints on getting rid of boat anchors (on ebay or otherwise)?

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[uitlander]

I'd hang onto the anchors until the floods die down :-)

Freecycle is your friend. There is a Reading Freecycle group run through Yahoo Groups.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Except Freecycle is organised the wrong way around for this sort of thing - we don't need Freecycle Reading, we need Freecycle Retrocomputing (and not a Yahoo group, either).

I'd say yes but I have a perfectly good SPARC Classic, minako.

[uitlander]

Actually the Reading freecycle group is rather good, and has a fair chunk of retro computing on it. My only gripe with them is that the Windsor group has configured its digest e-mail to be much more user friendly. IIRC a couple of SPARCs came up on the Reading one a few weeks ago and were snapped up within a few hours. I've certainly disposed of a number of items that way that all went to good homes, and acquired quite a few things as well. I'm baffled as to why you are against it.

[pm215]

I agree with David's point that a wider-area but tighter-focus group would be more useful for this kind of specialist item. I got one of these Suns from London, for instance, but there's no way I'd bother to read every freecycle group from here to London; I'm not even very likely to stay subscribed to the Reading group after I've shifted this kit. Whereas I would subscribe to an 'obsolete computer gear' list covering a big chunk of the south-east.
Which isn't to say that the local-area groups are no good, it's just horses for courses.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I'm not inherently against it; I'm just pointing out that - whether or not individuals get lucky - geographical distribution is not an effective way to dispose of very minority interest items.