I remember in University us going onto Sun's website and pricing out one of their high end 600Mhz Sparc workstations, maxed out on ram and drive space. I think

I remember in University us going onto Sun's website and pricing out one of their high end 600Mhz Sparc workstations, maxed out on ram and drive space. I think we got it up to $11k. Some of us got a hold of decade old Sparc stations sold at auction and put RHEL on them. I remember they had 25Mhz Sparc processors, 100MB SCSI hard drives, held a crazy amount of ram sticks, Sony Trinitron monitors with RGB coax inputs, those crazy laser mice that required a grid plate mouse pad (which sucked for tracking). Back when they were new, they cost $12k each. In 2000 we bought them for like $25 for a pallet of 30.