Sparc at home

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Fri Jul 13 20:43:26 2001

Many of the Macintosh Fixed Frequency monitors will work fine with a sun :)

At 12:50 PM 7/13/01 -0700, you wrote:

>--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> > >> I got a 20E20 from OSU surplus for $20 and a 17Esomething for $15! -
> stuff
> >
> > I WISH!!!! I've been looking for working Sun Monitors around here and they
> > aren't to be found! I can't even find a working GDM-1962, though I've
> > found 4 dead ones!
>
>I can keep my eyes out. Let me know offline what you are looking for and I'll
>beat the bushes. Older Sony monitors are much easier to find than anything
>else, of course, and weigh a ton.
>
> > Anyone know if you can hook a IBM P200 up to a Sparc? IIRC, the 13W3
> > pinout is different. I recently got one and have it hooked up to my Linux
> > box. I love the P200's, I've also got one on my Linux box at work.
>
>I do not know much about any other 13W3 monitors, except that SGI also has
>their own 13W3 pinout, but you can make a swabber.
>
> > >I wish I can find Ultrix-32 for the Vax.
> > >I'm going to look for Linux Decnet...
> >
> > Get the Ancient UNIX License, IIRC, the PUPS archive has Ultrix-32.
> > Remember though, it's a VAX, it *SHOULD* be running OpenVMS!!!
>
>What versions? I have distro kits for lots of VAX Ultrix releases in the
>1986 - 1994 timeframe. Mostly on 16MT9, but a couple of TK50s. I'd be
>happy to see these preserved. I even recently found some SYSV and SYSIII
>magtapes. No idea if they can still be read. My only working tape drive
>is a TU80 that hasn't been powered on in a couple of years (just got some
>TE16s last year that were stripped for sensors before they got to me; might
>still be able to get a TapeStretcher-11 that was hooked to a 11/750 I got
>from a company in Dayton some time ago). I'd love to have a SCSI magtape
>drive to make it easier to capture tape images - just fire up the laptop
>with the APA1460 card and off I go!
>
>My first UNIX experience was 4.1BSD on an 11/750 (and I _have_ that exact
>machine). My first UNIX adminstration experience was loading Ultrix 1.1
>onto an 11/730 (got that one, too!). It was once known as
>...ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-eddie!osucis!kpanda, or something very close to that.
>
>We always had to support both VMS and Ultrix/BSD for our customers. I never
>threw away a single manual or distribution tape the entire time I was there.
>Fortunately, the boss let me back the truck up against the door as my final
>paycheck. The stuff I had to leave behind (sniff)...
>
>-ethan
>
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Received on Fri Jul 13 2001 - 20:43:26 BST

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