A few months ago, Steve Rikli sent me a SPARCstation 5 that he no longer had a use for. The machine arrived yesterday and boy was I impressed. Steve went to a lot of effort to make sure the machine was properly packed – it arrived in a very sturdy Cisco box, with inserts to hold the machine in place and plenty of plastic peanuts. In addition, in order to get the machine in the mail to me, Steve also had to suffer multiple trips to the post office because of the vagaries of USPS’s shipping policies and their maximum package sizes.

The machine itself is a very nice one: 170Mhz TurboSPARC CPU, 256MiB RAM, 73GiB Fujitsu HD, CD-ROM, cgsix, SunVideo and quad ethernet. He also tossed an SBus Fast Ethernet/wide SCSI adapter in the box. Thanks Steve!

For those interested, here is the dmesg output. Of course, it runs NetBSD ;-)