Sun clones, was Re: Sun Sparc ID

From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_netzero.net>
Date: Sun Oct 13 09:44:01 2002

> From: Bob Shannon
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 5:53 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Sun clones, was Re: Sun Sparc ID
>
>
> I see people on the list understand these little pizza-box machines.
> I'll have to confess to total ignorance of
> the Sun workstations (having been a Domain OS user), but while removing
> some test equipment that had been left behind when a large company
> moved, I grabbed the following Sun clones:
>
> (they need homes, as the space they are taking up is worth more to me
> than they are...)
>
> Axil 320, no so loaded, but interesting.
>
> The motherboard on the 320 is interesting, the simm slots have
> extensions for even wider simm modules. There are four of these
> extensions but only 2 are populated with contacts, each adding 36
> contacts to the simm slot. I've never seen a simm like this. The simm
> modules installed do not use these extended contacts.

It sounds a lot like the DIMM sockets in the Sparc 20. If so, the slots with
the extensions can accomodate three kinds of DIMMS:

        - Regular Sparc 10/20/... memory DIMMS
        - 4mb or 8mb VDIMM (VRAM for onboard 24-bit framebuffer)
        - 2mv NVRAM DIMM used by the Prestoserve software

I'm curious... how much do you want for it?

<<<john>>>
Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 09:44:01 BST