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Posted by: paws on 2008-07-08 05:53:05
Got two Sun SPARCStations 20 and an IBM T20 via FedEx yesterday.
One of the Suns looks a bit shot, so I've moved all the RAM and the processor to the other one, meaning I now have a dual SuperSPARC system with 288 MB RAM. Just about to install NetBSD on it... and I'll probably try NeXTSTeP too when I get a monitor adaptor.
Also, a second IBM T20. Quite possibly one of the nicest laptops ever..
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Posted by: wthww on 2008-07-08 08:58:42
w00t SPARCstation 20! I only have a four and its dog slow =p. and YAY for Thinkpads! Congrats on a nice haul 😛
//wthww
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Posted by: John8520 on 2008-07-08 09:14:33
Oh man, nice going with the T20. Those older Ts are pretty much the best laptops ever made, I owned a T40 up until about several months ago. Great computers.
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Posted by: porter on 2008-07-08 11:22:13
Sun SPARCStations 20..... Just about to install NetBSD Although I think NetBSD is a great OS, and I use one for my router/gateway/dns/dhcpd box, I try an use original OS if possible. Can you not get hold of Solaris 9 any more?
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Posted by: Cory5412 on 2008-07-08 11:58:19
I think I may have T-Envy now. 😉
Anywya, congrats on the suns and the T. all, very worthy computers.
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Posted by: paws on 2008-07-08 14:21:05
I try an use original OS if possible. Can you not get hold of Solaris 9 any more? I'm sure I could, but I don't really see the point? NetBSD supports all of the SS20's hardware, except for the audio which I wasn't planning on using, anyways. Also, the only Sys V I've used is IRIX, and whilst the graphical parts of it are certainly decent, I have to say I find BSD much more pleasant, though I'm sure it's just familiarity. I need a UNIX box that's a serial console away from my Quadra, and this is a very good bet.
I'm nor really sure what Solaris, especially the newer version which are supposedly quite big, could offer me except for the concept of an "original" OS? I certainly don't have any Sun-specific applications that I'm wanting to run.
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Posted by: porter on 2008-07-08 14:42:38
I run a Solaris 6 box on 1.5 gig disk space and a Solaris 7 box on 2gig drive. Solaris 8 and 9 will both run on a 3 gig drive. All complete installs, with gcc, openssh and including swap space.
You get variety. 🙂
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Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2008-07-08 14:59:20
I've got a 8GB root partition on my Solaris 10 box, and I filled it up today. Threw out a bunch of downloaded tarballs and working files to get under 90%. I need to find another decent-sized SCSI drive so I can squeeze some more on it.
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Posted by: mac-man6 on 2008-07-09 02:59:05
The T's are very nice. I picked up a T20 to fix a T21 I had. Turns out the T21 is quite messed so I just swapped the processors and heat sinks and now I have a T20 with 800mhz processor. This T20 beats my old IBM 390x with a broken hinge in so many ways.
Congrats on the Sun, I hear they're quite reliable.
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Posted by: paws on 2008-07-10 07:07:00
Well, this is turning into a complete nightmare.
One was somewhat working, the other somewhat not. I tracked the problem to a bad stick of RAM, did some swapping about, and now they're not making it past POST.
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Posted by: porter on 2008-07-10 13:03:18
I tracked the problem to a bad stick of RAM, did some swapping about, and now they're not making it past POST. Are you filling the banks correctly? My SparcStation LX (also a sun4m) has to be done in pairs but the sockets are not adjacent.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-4450/6j47ekk4e?l=ru&a=view
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http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-4450/6j47ekk4e?l=ru&a=view#z40001b74c5
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Posted by: paws on 2008-07-10 15:57:38
It was definitely RAM related, but I fixered it by seating them very carefully... So it is now indeed a 288MB dual SuperSPARC NetBSD system. Woohoo.
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