Re: SunBlade 1000

Hey Ben,

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> Poking around the internet I found that the 1st generation SunBlade 
> 1000/2000 series looked like an inexpensive worthy successor. 
> Unfortunately I'm in Belgium where Sun gear is pretty hard to come by on 
> eBay (I've always suspected that the amount of Sun stuff on eBay is a 
> good indicator of the state of a countries economy). I found a very 
> limited number of UK sellers willing to ship here, there is a huge 
> second market in Germany but they almost always refuse to ship outside 
> national borders. After some email negotiations I persuaded a seller in 
> Dorset, UK to ship to Belgium and I got home from work a couple of days 
> later to find a huge package waiting at the neighbours. I'd asked them 
> (the seller, not the neighbours) to add a Sun USB keyboard and mouse 
> which were almost as expensive as the box itself.

Yeah, generally, there's not much (decent) Sun gear to find in Belgium. 
  However, I have had much success in the UK, Germany and to a lesser 
extent, the Netherlands.  Some places to look out for Sun gear are eBay 
UK & DE, marktplaats.nl, the forums on nekochan.net, 
http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/, ...  (although the latter is not 
answering any mails anymore, does anybody know him?).  Usually people on 
eBay do not want to send Sun gear outside their country, both most of 
them can be pursuaded to change their stance...

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> PS If anyone in the Belgium / northern France / southern Holland area is 
> looking for some free Sun gear please get in touch. I think I need to 
> slim down the fleet. This would be pickup only.

Mail sent :)

Kind regards,
Laurens