Sun Ultra 1 questions

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon May 17 11:18:55 2004

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:32, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Does the "AppleCD 300 Plus" support 512-byte blocks?

If that's what Sun machines need, then yes - I've just finished
installing Solaris from it :)

> >No idea why this machine was thrown out. It seems to work so far. Maybe
>
> It was probably tossed because it's old and slow. Having said that,
> awesome find, in my opinion, that's one of the best systems for
> running OpenBSD (I've often wished I had one). One of these days
> I'll get one, I've managed to get everything between the Sparc 2 and
> Ultra 60, except it and an Ultra 30 for free :^)

Heh - I got hold of a Sparc 1, 2, 4, and 10 the other day and there's an
IPX on the way (and a few Sparc 5's in the pipeline) as a local site's
upgrading and so having a clear-out - I think they're keeping all their
Ultra machines though. Those ones are all off to the museum though.

Then this Sparc 4, 10 and the Ultra turned up yesterday - funny thing is
I've been wanting to get hold of a Sun machine of some form for years,
and suddenly lots turn up at once :-)

I'll have to have a look at OpenBSD - I've got spare drives so can stick
a copy on one of the others. I assume Suns are quite happy booting from
different SCSI targets....

I'll have to find a framebuffer of some sort for this one (I've got a
nice 21" Sun monitor sitting over at the museum which could run with
it). I think one of the machines destined for the museum had both a
framebuffer on board and a seperate CG6 card, so I might put the card in
this Ultra for now. It could badly do with some more memory too.

I suppose I class this machine as 'new', but they're perhaps one of the
last few 'modern' machines that are interesting to hack around on
though.

cheers

Jules
Received on Mon May 17 2004 - 11:18:55 BST