[committee] Sparc Ultra-10s

[Phil Sutherland]

Dear Committee,
Some of you may know of me - I was a UCC member 1979 through about 1984,
was Vice-President in 1980, and have attended the odd (very odd
sometimes) dinner since then on club anniversaries, including the one
last year.

To cut to the chase, the company where I work, Lateral Sands in Subiaco,
has a pair of Sun Sparc Ultra-10 machines (Tatooine and Hoth) which we
acquired around 2000-01 and which are no longer useful to us. The
machines have keyboards and mice, but no monitors. I cannot remember
their memory/disk configuration. Both were in working order when shut
down, although Hoth has a known problem with cache memory in its CPU
which causes occasional core dumps when stressed (sounds like some
people I know). Sun would not honour the US warranty and we were not
interested in paying A$2k for a replacement CPU module. At worst you
should end up with one fully working machine and some spare parts,
though I would imagine a surplus CPU module might be more easily
obtainable now.

Anyway, we're happy to donate these two machines to the club if you can
find a use for them. All I ask is that you crank out a thank you letter
in return. Prior to their departure from here I'll need to fire them up
and do the usual disk sanitization, though I don't think there's much on
the machines that's secret any more.

Let me know if you're interested and we can organize a date/time for
pickup. I can be phoned at work on 6380 8008 or emailed at the address
above, or at my 'home' address phil at clew.com.au.
Cheers
phil