Sun E3500 available in PA, US.

[Mark G. Thomas]

Hi,

After my recent rescue of a pair of loaded and nearly pristine V880s, I
it's time to retire my Sun E3500 server. For years this has been my
favorite Sun system, first central to my small business, then later
for my home file-server and personal workstation.

My E3500 is configured with an SBUS I/O board, a PCI I/O board, and three
(dual) CPU system boards, but I'll include additional CPUs and CPU boards
if someone would rather configure it for 8 CPUs. Mine has the 100 MHz clock
board, a spare 100 MHz clock board, 400 MHz CPUs, and I think whatever
maximum amount of RAM the system boards will take. It also has the square
glued-on heatsink versions of the boards, since the clips for the round
heatsinks break. It has the optional front-mounted FC disk power supply,
and I'll include at least two 18GB FC drives with a fresh Solaris
installation. I'll also include an S-Bus cgsix frame buffer and sun monitor,
if desired. There are additional spare I/O and CPU boards and other
parts. I was hoping someone would offer me a few hundred dollars for
everything and would pick it up near Plymouth Meeting PA, since I want
nothing to do with shipping this beast. I might be persuaded to include
a loaded 420R or two as well.  I also might open to various trades for
newer Sun or Cisco gear.

Anyone interested?

Mark G. Thomas


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[Jonathan Patschke]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Mark G. Thomas wrote:

> It also has the square glued-on heatsink versions of the boards, since
> the clips for the round heatsinks break.

For what it's worth, if you catch this particular problem before the board
destroys itself, it's easy (if tedious) to fix.  Arctic Alumina thermal
adhesive (after cleaning the ASICs with ArctiClean) will do the job, and
you'll never have to worry about those fragile clips again.

If you're reasonably fast about it, you can do the whole board at once,
and pop it into a bench vise between a couple pieces of scrap lumber until
it's ready for installation.

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