SPARCstation SLC - the 1990 iMac
SPARCstation SLC - the 1990 iMac
ordered a new run of #usb3sun boards. should be back in stock later this month!
#netbsd 10.1 auf meiner #sun #sparcstation 5. Jetzt brauche ich noch eine Mause und muss den IDPROM reparieren. Dann ist alles fein und das Schmuckstück rennt wieder. #retrocomputing
Got my capture setup dialed in. I can record pixel-perfect from my Sun SPARCstations now.
Can't seem to get Solaris to install on this Sparcstation 1 with a BlueSCSI. Keep getting this error when it tries to create the root filesystem.
got a sparcstation but no keyboard or mouse? tired of having to reprogram your idprom over and over?
usb3sun lets you connect usb keyboards and mice to your sun workstation, and it can reprogram your idprom with just a few keystrokes
rev B0 now available → https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun
Retro-Server-Party! #powerpc #sparc #sun #sunmicrosystems #sparcstation #macintosh #sunblade #solaris #macos
hmm. it appears that to get #OpenBoot on a #SPARCstation-5 to `boot cdrom:d -vs`, the cdrom needs to be SCSI unit ID 6? No fucking idea why, but it works, lets not question it too hard
Ran across this going through my old stuff. The pre-pre-pre-release docs for the SPARCstation-2 (Calvin). Was given to us lowly techs who were destined to debug them coming off the manufacturing line. When I started at Sun, I was a lowly failure analysis technician, the good jobs went to Stanford grads, DeVRY grads needed to come in through the back door. Eventually made my way into engineering and then SunLabs (where the real party was).
#suntember #sparcstation #sparcstation2 #sunw
Zomggg! The errors have been corrected, and we now have a #SparcStation 10 running off a #BlueSCSI!
The lights of a @BlueSCSI hanging out inside a Sun #SparcStation.
Now that the house is a bit less full again, let’s see if we can get this puppy working properly!
@tarek @tubetime Same, my first bit of #Perl scripting was when administering a small network of #Sun #SPARCstations (model 10 or 20, I forget) for the RF engineering department of a mobile phone company in the mid-1990s. That led to a short side gig helping a friend develop an early #CGI web-based game, then somehow I landed a webmaster job at a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company. The rest is history.
@danhon I miss my #SPARCstation and blue split-level #SGI Indy