FREE: Sun equipment in Des Moines, Iowa

From: VaxCat <vaxcat_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Wed Oct 23 23:17:01 2002

Greetings,

As I've long since left the hobby of collecting classic
computers to the folks here, who are much more consistent
about the whole thing, it is time to send some equipment
to a new home.

A couple years ago, I retrieved some Sun equipment from
Tom Uban in Indiana. Since I told him that I would not
ebay or sell the equipment, I am looking for a good home
for it and will give it free to someone who wants to come
to Des Moines, Iowa to retrieve it.

I do want it to go to a serious collector and would be
very upset to see it on ebay or parted out for sale.

The following is available:

Sun 3/60 w/ 16 megs ram - ready to netboot - working

Sun 3/110 w/ 16 megs ram - ready to boot off attached
200 meg scsi disk with Sunos 4.1.x

5 Sun 3/110 oem boards in 19 inch rack VME chassis

2 or 3 sets of keyboards, mice and optical mousepads

Lots of old style ethernet transceivers

2 19" Sun monochrome monitors - one tested good with
3/60

1 21" Apollo color monitor - converted to be compatible
with 3/110 - works

2 boxes of Sun manuals

Also free to a good home, I have an ISC 8001 terminal.
This is the 19" color terminal for which unix termcap
entries actually exist for some unknown reason.

It does power up, came from Microware and displays their
header information on boot and sends out data through it's
serial port. It doesn't seem to receive data however so
I suspect it needs a replacement 1488 or 1489 (can't
remember which is the receiver). In either case, the
price is right for something that is fairly rare. =-)

I may have some other fun goodies about like a couple
Apple laser printers in unknown condition and a weird old
Vector S-100 business sytem with an 8" winchester hard
disk but no software.

While I wouldn't mind selling some of this other stuff,
it's too heavy to ship so I'm just looking to lighten
the basement ballast.

Thanks,

Anthony Clifton
Des Moines, Iowa

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