23 Jan
2020
23 Jan
'20
7:01 p.m.
Kind of scary what's in my basement. For those of you building UNIX
workstations in the early days, I have a big fat notebook full of
Weitek floating point chip specs, many of which are marked as preliminary.
Also a set of CORBA specs. Again, low-hanging fruit that's getting
recycled unless anyone has a use for them.
In the not completely sure that I want to part with them yet for some
strange reason, I have a set of SunOS manuals.
Also, if anyone collects old hardware I have a SparcStation 20 with a
slightly modified SunOS sitting around and an Ultra 60 Solaris box.
Jon
23 Jan
23 Jan
11:01 p.m.
What are the mods? I have a stack of 10s and 20s but will take it for safe
keeping if nobody else will.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:01 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Kind of scary what's in my basement. For those
of you building UNIX
workstations in the early days, I have a big fat notebook full of
Weitek floating point chip specs, many of which are marked as preliminary.
Also a set of CORBA specs. Again, low-hanging fruit that's getting
recycled unless anyone has a use for them.
In the not completely sure that I want to part with them yet for some
strange reason, I have a set of SunOS manuals.
Also, if anyone collects old hardware I have a SparcStation 20 with a
slightly modified SunOS sitting around and an Ultra 60 Solaris box.
Jon
11:48 p.m.
Kevin Bowling writes:
What are the mods? I have a stack of 10s and 20s but will take it for safe
keeping if nobody else will.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:01 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
> Kind of scary what's in my basement. For those of you building UNIX
> workstations in the early days, I have a big fat notebook full of
> Weitek floating point chip specs, many of which are marked as preliminary.
> Also a set of CORBA specs. Again, low-hanging fruit that's getting
> recycled unless anyone has a use for them.
>
> In the not completely sure that I want to part with them yet for some
> strange reason, I have a set of SunOS manuals.
>
> Also, if anyone collects old hardware I have a SparcStation 20 with a
> slightly modified SunOS sitting around and an Ultra 60 Solaris box.
>
> Jon
The Sparc 20 includes the double-buffered graphics board. Thanks to an
unnamed employee, I got the code to do a kernel mod so that I can run
SunView on the front buffer and X on the rear buffer and switch between
the two by running the mouse off of the side of the screen.
I probably have installation media around for both of these systems.
Which means that I also have a QIC-150 drive to go with 'em. And a
stack of QIC-150 and QIC-50 tapes that I've been wanting to get rid
of but haven't managed to procure a good bulk eraser yet. Also may
have Sun DDS-2, DDS-3, and DDS-4 DAT drives; will have to look. I
also have one of the Archive Python DAT drives with the special SGI
firmware that lets the DDS layer be turned off so that you can read
and write audio DATs; that's currently loaned out and I'd need to
check the status of it.
Jon
24 Jan
24 Jan
8:42 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:49 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Kevin Bowling writes:
that sounds really cool, is there any way you could extract that mod from
the machine?
(I don't really need another Sparc 20, but the mod interests me).
What are the mods? I have a stack of 10s and 20s but will take it for
safe
keeping if nobody else will.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:01 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com>
wrote:
> Kind of scary what's in my basement. For those of you building UNIX
> workstations in the early days, I have a big fat notebook full of
> Weitek floating point chip specs, many of which are marked as
preliminary.
> Also a set of CORBA specs. Again,
low-hanging fruit that's getting
> recycled unless anyone has a use for them.
>
> In the not completely sure that I want to part with them yet for some
> strange reason, I have a set of SunOS manuals.
>
> Also, if anyone collects old hardware I have a SparcStation 20 with a
> slightly modified SunOS sitting around and an Ultra 60 Solaris box.
>
> Jon
The Sparc 20 includes the double-buffered graphics board. Thanks to an
unnamed employee, I got the code to do a kernel mod so that I can run
SunView on the front buffer and X on the rear buffer and switch between
the two by running the mouse off of the side of the screen.
I probably have installation media around for both of these systems.
Which means that I also have a QIC-150 drive to go with 'em. And a
stack of QIC-150 and QIC-50 tapes that I've been wanting to get rid
of but haven't managed to procure a good bulk eraser yet. Also may
have Sun DDS-2, DDS-3, and DDS-4 DAT drives; will have to look. I
also have one of the Archive Python DAT drives with the special SGI
firmware that lets the DDS layer be turned off so that you can read
and write audio DATs; that's currently loaned out and I'd need to
check the status of it.
Jon
23 Jan
23 Jan
11:08 p.m.
Hello!
At one point I'd be delighted to take one or the other of the Sun
boxes, but I've been advised to no longer do that. Kevin do me a favor
and take both. However... I'm looking for DEC Terminal Server devices,
the Model 90L or Model 90L Plus devices.
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"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 2:02 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Kind of scary what's in my basement. For those of you building UNIX
workstations in the early days, I have a big fat notebook full of
Weitek floating point chip specs, many of which are marked as preliminary.
Also a set of CORBA specs. Again, low-hanging fruit that's getting
recycled unless anyone has a use for them.
In the not completely sure that I want to part with them yet for some
strange reason, I have a set of SunOS manuals.
Also, if anyone collects old hardware I have a SparcStation 20 with a
slightly modified SunOS sitting around and an Ultra 60 Solaris box.
Jon
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