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Через тернии к Солнцу: уютный UNIX

Привет! Я Владимир Карагиоз, работаю техническим лидером по развитию гибридных облачных решений в

https://habr.com/ru/companies/cloud_ru/articles/1046087/

#unix #sun #unix_way #sparcstation

#SPARCstation 1 spotted at ZKM / #GPN24

#SPARCstation 1 spotted at ZKM / #GPN24

Через тернии к солнцу: запускаем 30-летний Sun SPARCstation 5 в 2026 году

Привет! Меня зовут Владимир Карагиоз, я технический лидер по развитию гибридных облачных решений в

https://habr.com/ru/companies/cloud_ru/articles/1039954/

#unix #unixway #sun #sun_microsystems #sparcstation

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix

Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix

Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️

Hey Retro Fans!

Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:

NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!

For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.

A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

@jamesholden Very cool - I love 32-bit #SPARCstation hardware. On the point of the terminator - is it because you were using an external drive too? I don't remember having to use a terminator if only using the internal drives.

#retrocomputing

Compiling old games on my #sparcstation . Mirror Magic II from 1994 already works, even with audio! I remembered the plain old Linux sound interface is compatible to #Solaris‘. This game originally was ported from the Amiga and still is super enjoyable. I was able to obtain the 1.0 source code from a very early Linux pre-distro code archive.

The original author still enhances it continuously by adding more play modes:
https://www.artsoft.org/mirrormagic/

Compiling old games on my #sparcstation . Mirror Magic II from 1994 already works, even with audio! I remembered the plain old Linux sound interface is compatible to #Solaris‘. This game originally was ported from the Amiga and still is super enjoyable. I was able to obtain the 1.0 source code from a very early Linux pre-distro code archive.

The original author still enhances it continuously by adding more play modes:
https://www.artsoft.org/mirrormagic/

🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶

#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/sparcstation-1-timekeeper-battery-fix-dremel.html

🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶

#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/sparcstation-1-timekeeper-battery-fix-dremel.html

Someone's old Sun SPARCstation IPX fan page I ran across today, randomly.

I love old pages like this.

https://williambader.com/museum/sunipx/sunipx.html

#SUN #SPARC #SPARCstation #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #oldwebsites #derelictpages #workstations #Solaris #SunOS

Someone's old Sun SPARCstation IPX fan page I ran across today, randomly.

I love old pages like this.

https://williambader.com/museum/sunipx/sunipx.html

#SUN #SPARC #SPARCstation #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #oldwebsites #derelictpages #workstations #Solaris #SunOS

Ok, here's the blog post!

If you've wanted to party like it's 1994 and experience life on planet #Unix _before_ Solaris, why not try a bit of #RetroComputing and try #SunOS 4 on an emulated #SPARCstation 5? https://apintandaparma.club/cos/falling-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-nostalgia-episode-1-sunos-4

Ok, here's the blog post!

If you've wanted to party like it's 1994 and experience life on planet #Unix _before_ Solaris, why not try a bit of #RetroComputing and try #SunOS 4 on an emulated #SPARCstation 5? https://apintandaparma.club/cos/falling-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-nostalgia-episode-1-sunos-4

Erstmal Solaris 9 auf die #sparcstation 5 installieren. Der NEC MultiSync EA221WM ist echt Gold wert. Kann 15kHz und das Signal des 13w3 Framebuffers. #retrocomputing #retro #sun #sparc

Die #SparcStation 5 läuft mit #SunOS 5.9 aka #Solaris9. Die Installation hat zwar was 3h gedauert. Aber so kommt zusammen, was zusammen gehört. #retrocomputing #retro #sun

Trying to remember a unix gag from the early 90s. You could send a command to someone else's terminal and a little guy would appear on screen and slowly push the whole thing off your monitor. If you knew what was up, you could kill the process, but if not, you'd be locked out. I'd swear this was called "Ferkle", but I can't find anything mention of this anywhere. This was on a Sun SPARCstation, I believe.

Anyone?

#unix #sparcstation #computer

Trying to remember a unix gag from the early 90s. You could send a command to someone else's terminal and a little guy would appear on screen and slowly push the whole thing off your monitor. If you knew what was up, you could kill the process, but if not, you'd be locked out. I'd swear this was called "Ferkle", but I can't find anything mention of this anywhere. This was on a Sun SPARCstation, I believe.

Anyone?

#unix #sparcstation #computer

SparcStation 1+ Finally Gets Attention https://hackaday.com/2025/08/09/sparcstation-1-finally-gets-attention/ #Retrocomputing #sparcstation #sparc #sun

SparcStation 1+ Finally Gets Attention https://hackaday.com/2025/08/09/sparcstation-1-finally-gets-attention/ #Retrocomputing #sparcstation #sparc #sun

SparcStation 1+ Finally Gets Attention - We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and fou... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/09/sparcstation-1-finally-gets-attention/ #retrocomputing #sparcstation #sparc #sun

SparcStation 1+ Finally Gets Attention - We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and fou... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/09/sparcstation-1-finally-gets-attention/ #retrocomputing #sparcstation #sparc #sun

Flashback: How I used an old #Sun #SPARCstation running #OpenBSD as mail server
https://blog.martinscloud.com/flashback-sun-sparcstation-20-running-openbsd-as-mail-server/

Flashback: How I used an old #Sun #SPARCstation running #OpenBSD as mail server
https://blog.martinscloud.com/flashback-sun-sparcstation-20-running-openbsd-as-mail-server/

If you have some cool ideas about what to do with the #SPARCstation 5 ler me know!

I could also save the computer that went with the keyboard, an #IBM PS/2 model 30 with a screen that seems to be monochrome. I could not resist saving also a #SUN #SPARCstation 5, that I found there. I don’t know if they work, and they stayed one night under heavy rain. I will check them also to remove #batteries. #retrocomputing

Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)

#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #sparc #risc #ipx #solaris