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Carboy7's conquests!
Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-02-12 09:59:29
It's so...clear!
Posted by: Macdrone on 2017-02-12 10:16:45
Those CRT's stay pretty clean. 
Posted by: Carboy7 on 2017-02-12 11:27:48
Not this one, though. There was a LOT of dust, scuff marks, a big sticker on the side... But it cleaned up nicely, don't you think?
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-02-12 11:41:24
Nice! Now I want it back.
Posted by: Carboy7 on 2017-02-12 12:21:55
:O Don't you dare...
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-02-12 12:45:49
:lol: Gotcha! I'm just happy to see it has finally received all the TLC it always deserved in its new home

You must have had your minions working on that thing all day and night! At what time did you wind up disassembling the case and firing up the compressor? Beautiful restoration job, did the coatings come off without a scar or was that one scratch deep enough to need to go the glass polishing route?

After half a lifetime of working on TPDs, a mid-sized monitor like that just has no appeal for me, even if it is the last and second classiest CRT design to emerge from the Infinite Loopiness. The ADC CRT StudioDisplay may be in my favorite Graphite color scheme, but it's not as powerful a design statement as the smaller Macintosh Portrait Display. That one is a 72dpi WYSIWYG Full Page Display masterpiece from the Dawn of DTP, there's just no competing with that for the top spot. [🙂] ]'>
Posted by: Carboy7 on 2017-02-12 14:53:55
Hah, you're right about the minions! 😉

We opened it around noonish today, and got all that crap out. So much dust!!!

Polishing went well, too. The back shell was almost spotless by the time it got together.

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Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-02-12 15:40:30
I always wondered why Apple never made a completely clear iMac...would look cool!
Posted by: Carboy7 on 2017-02-12 16:04:00
The closest thing to that was the graphite iMac G3, but yeah...
Posted by: EvieSigma on 2017-02-12 16:07:50
Yeah, but I was thinking one that's all clear plastic front and back.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-02-12 16:38:07
I always wondered why Apple never made a completely clear iMac...would look cool!
RFI and the necessity of FCC approvals.
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2017-02-13 14:52:20
Many years ago a guy I knew had one of those clear ADC CRT monitors he wanted to get rid of, but I didn't have anything ADC at the time so I didn't snag it (regret it now). It looked so mint.
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-02-13 15:27:50
Any progress on getting the SPARCstation5 up and running? Did you try booting it from any of the Linux CDs?
Posted by: Carboy7 on 2017-02-13 16:11:11
I'll try right now, as a matter of fact.  😎

Posted by: Carboy7 on 2017-02-13 17:02:25
Weird, it won't boot off the HDD or CD... It is showing a "Can't open boot device" for the CDs, and an "Illegal instruction" for the HDD. At least I got it out of booting from net! 😛 IMG_0047.JPGIMG_0048.JPG
Posted by: Unknown_K on 2017-02-13 17:35:55
Is the battery still good on that unit?
Posted by: ScutBoy on 2017-02-13 19:04:58
Also, what are the SCSI IDs of the devices you are using?

My OpenFirmware neurons are a bit rusty, but from the ok prompt if you do

probe-scsi-all

it should tell you what SCSI devices the machine can see.

The big long string that corresponds to the cdrom device is what you want to use for the "boot" command

you can also use the command

devalias

to see if the alias for 'cdrom' is set to the same path or something different.

google for 'sun openfirmware' and you'll find a lot of info and tutorials on how to get around at the ok prompt.
Posted by: Carboy7 on 2017-02-13 19:09:32
Ok... ( 😉 )
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-02-14 05:11:22
Sweet! If you can get that one up and running, maybe you can do the same to a couple more from the SPARCstack so we can pass them on to others.

Can you take a head-on shot of that startup logo? I just snipped it to make an Avatar, but a direct shot should be squared up properly so I don't need to crop quite as much out of the image.
Posted by: Mr. Ksoft on 2017-02-14 08:44:00
Those Sparcs are a pain to get booting on CD.  I have a Sparcstation 10 and had the same errors... what it didn't like was the termination on my SCSI CD-ROM.  That would even kill the hard drive booting (same on my SGI Indy).  Unfortunately, no combination of external terminators or in-line ones could solve the issue... had to use a completely different drive, which is dumb because the one I had been using was in an actual Sun external case (I think what ended up working was an AppleCD 300, the internal version, in a noname external enclosure).  No wonder I hate SCSI.  After vowing never to deal with that again I ended up spinning up a Linux VM to netboot via RARP and BOOTP, which is (relatively) easy for getting the installer going on anything not Solaris.
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