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Posted by: Bunsen on 2007-06-28 15:06:44
Wheee! A SPARCstation IPX for $0.99+ship. Loaded up with three 72 pin RAM sticks (with 32 chips stuffed onto each one).
Now the internal struggle begins - NetBSD or gut it and Mac it ....
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Posted by: mongo on 2007-06-28 15:23:02
Nice find! I love those lunch boxes.
What do you mean by "mac it"?
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2007-06-28 15:45:47
I mean use it as a case for a Mac motherboard.
Heh. Now I have a pretty neat little Sun box collection.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-06-28 18:22:22
Cool. I just dug my SparcClassic out and am trying to decide what I want to do with it. It powers up, but I can't really test it because I don't have a Sun monitor or a 13W3 adapter. I think the Sun keyboard and mouse are also proprietary. 🙁
On the bright side, the old lunchboxes use 50 pin SCSI devices, so if you have a lot of stuff leftover from old Macs, it might work on the Sun if the Apple ROM chip doesn't decide to get in the way.
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Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2007-06-29 08:52:37
Last night I tried to install Solaris 10 on the Ultra 5 I mentioned a couple weeks ago. Well, now I think I know why I got it as a freebie: the CD drive seems to have problems. I could start the installation fine from disk 1, but disk 2 gave me fits - all kinds of errors. If I skipped it and went to 3, I had the same problem. I reburned disk 2 at slower speed but had the same problem.
I will probably try a more basic install just to get up and running, and then upgrade to a more complete system once I can log in. I would think that would be possible; I am no Solaris expert.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-06-29 09:39:49
These old machines are slow, too. While you can technically install Solaris 9 on them if you have enough memory and hard drive space, the CPU's are just too slow. A single 50mhz 32-bit microSparc, like in my Classic, just doesn't have the oomph of a multi-processor 64-bit UltraSparc machine. It's like comparing a Powermac 6100/60 to an octocore Mac Pro.
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Posted by: MacG4 on 2007-06-29 10:02:58
ive got a sparc 20 running solaris 9 with 256mb ram
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-06-29 10:18:37
http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipx/
Bunsen, here's some info about the IPX if you need.
Heh, I found out yours my not be able to go as high as 9 as it is an older architecture than the Classic. I haven't found any definite links as to how far you can take it, though. NetBSD or a version of Linux compiled for Sparc might be a good bet.
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Posted by: Charlieman on 2007-07-04 10:46:45
NetBSD or a version of Linux compiled for Sparc might be a good bet. Or SunOS with OpenStep?
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2007-07-04 12:22:35
There's a thought ...
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