SPARCstation SLC - the 1990 iMac

https://apfelklassik.de/blogartikel.html?ID=32

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

Back in all it's glory ...

End the line: The last Sun Sparc Workstation
—@retrobytes

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O3iUmhkP10k

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

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 #SPARCstation​s (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.