Via PCLinuxOnline, Linuxbeginner points to RetroBox. RetroBox is a website that sells old computer gear for amazingly reasonable prices. And by amazingly reasonable prices, I’m talking about $25 or so for a solid PII with some RAM and a decent hard drive. It’s definitely enough to run a fairly modern Linux system on.
They also have amazing prices on used Sparc and UltraSparc systems. For just under or just over a hundred bucks, you can pick up a solid UltraSparc system.
The only drawback is shipping costs. I wonder how much gear one would have to buy to make a field trip to Columbus worthwhile…