Around the time those E10K were coming out was when I started losing my fondness of Sun. I remember building Solaris machines back then was a pain because the default software was never enough and we had to go build our own packages from open source projects or download from sunfreeware.com. Just seemed so backwards and Linux in the enterprise space was really starting to pickup.I used to lots of work E10K and it's newer version, 440's & 880's etc. reliable and stable, slow and expensive and not many features.
Can't say I really cared for them or Sun in general.
Missed OSF1/Tru64 and the old Digital boxes more
a lot of old timers like me here... i still have an Ultra 2 w/ dual 400Mhz UltraSPARC-II and 2GB of RAM along with a D1000 disk array. also have an Ultra 5 that I overclocked. sold most of my old sun gear though.. those are the last and will probably throw them on ebay for someone else who might want to play with old stuff... the D1000 +U2 server would probably make for a good ZFS playground.
there probably should be a support group for people who hang on to old Unix gear... the thing is, i had an appreciation for the equipment of that era; probably because i had learned so much on them. so, it's hard to just throw it to a e-recycler like i would a PC. i would rather the equipment go to someone who might actually enjoy it; retro-computing enthusiast or collector. it took me a while to get rid of my HP-UX and SGI hardware until about 7 yrs ago. Found some guy who was really excited to get the SGI Indigo2, I included all the accessories, manuals, and IRIX CD sets I had with it ; it felt good that someone wanted it, and it wasn't just "junk" in their eyes.Oddly enough Blinux I think I still have that hardware in a closet somewhere.. Really hard to get rid of.
Actually it's not emotional attachment, its financial. In my world they charge $17 a computer to recycle. I tried to bring a couple in one time and they wouldn't take them because they "were owned by a company"there probably should be a support group for people who hang on to old Unix gear... the thing is, i had an appreciation for the equipment of that era; probably because i had learned so much on them. so, it's hard to just throw it to a e-recycler like i would a PC. i would rather the equipment go to someone who might actually enjoy it; retro-computing enthusiast or collector. it took me a while to get rid of my HP-UX and SGI hardware until about 7 yrs ago. Found some guy who was really excited to get the SGI Indigo2, I included all the accessories, manuals, and IRIX CD sets I had with it ; it felt good that someone wanted it, and it wasn't just "junk" in their eyes.
that said, i'm making progress... after being reminded of my old stuff in this thread, i pulled out the Ultra 2, D1000, and Ultra 5... going to see if they still work (pretty sure the NVRAM battery must be long gone) and see if I can find someone who wants them.