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Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! ๐๏ธ๐ธ๏ธ
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 ๐ธ
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๐ถ 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? ๐ถ
#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse
https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/sparcstation-1-timekeeper-battery-fix-dremel.html
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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
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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
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Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)
#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #sparc #risc #ipx #solaris
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Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)
#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #sparc #risc #ipx #solaris
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Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)
#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #sparc #risc #ipx #solaris
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Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)
#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #sparc #risc #ipx #solaris
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Loving the days when I get the IPX Up and running (scheduled function test any 6 months)
#retrocomputing #sun #sparcstation #sparc #risc #ipx #solaris
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Back in all it's glory ...
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Back in all it's glory ...
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Back in all it's glory ...
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Back in all it's glory ...
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Back in all it's glory ...
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Reviving a SPARCstation IPX ... recapped PSU is working ๐
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Reviving a SPARCstation IPX ... recapped PSU is working ๐
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Reviving a SPARCstation IPX ... recapped PSU is working ๐
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Reviving a SPARCstation IPX ... recapped PSU is working ๐
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Reviving a SPARCstation IPX ... recapped PSU is working ๐
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โ๏ธ๐ป๐ฅ๏ธ๐ In addition to the SPARCstation 20 (pictured), we also host the SPARCstation IPX, SPARCstation 4, SPARCstation 5, and SUN UltraSPARC 1.
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #sunmicrosystems #museo #retrocomputing #solaris #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #informatica #sparcstation #microprocessore #tecnica #90s #italia #germany #sparc #vintagesun #maribor #kranj #slovenija #sunultrasparc1 #80s #sparcstation4 #workstation
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hmm. it appears that to get #OpenBoot on a #SPARCstation-5 to `boot cdrom:d -vs`, the cdrom needs to be SCSI unit ID 6? No fucking idea why, but it works, lets not question it too hard
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Ran across this going through my old stuff. The pre-pre-pre-release docs for the SPARCstation-2 (Calvin). Was given to us lowly techs who were destined to debug them coming off the manufacturing line. When I started at Sun, I was a lowly failure analysis technician, the good jobs went to Stanford grads, DeVRY grads needed to come in through the back door. Eventually made my way into engineering and then SunLabs (where the real party was).
#suntember #sparcstation #sparcstation2 #sunw -
Ran across this going through my old stuff. The pre-pre-pre-release docs for the SPARCstation-2 (Calvin). Was given to us lowly techs who were destined to debug them coming off the manufacturing line. When I started at Sun, I was a lowly failure analysis technician, the good jobs went to Stanford grads, DeVRY grads needed to come in through the back door. Eventually made my way into engineering and then SunLabs (where the real party was).
#suntember #sparcstation #sparcstation2 #sunw -
Ran across this going through my old stuff. The pre-pre-pre-release docs for the SPARCstation-2 (Calvin). Was given to us lowly techs who were destined to debug them coming off the manufacturing line. When I started at Sun, I was a lowly failure analysis technician, the good jobs went to Stanford grads, DeVRY grads needed to come in through the back door. Eventually made my way into engineering and then SunLabs (where the real party was).
#suntember #sparcstation #sparcstation2 #sunw -
Ran across this going through my old stuff. The pre-pre-pre-release docs for the SPARCstation-2 (Calvin). Was given to us lowly techs who were destined to debug them coming off the manufacturing line. When I started at Sun, I was a lowly failure analysis technician, the good jobs went to Stanford grads, DeVRY grads needed to come in through the back door. Eventually made my way into engineering and then SunLabs (where the real party was).
#suntember #sparcstation #sparcstation2 #sunw -
Ran across this going through my old stuff. The pre-pre-pre-release docs for the SPARCstation-2 (Calvin). Was given to us lowly techs who were destined to debug them coming off the manufacturing line. When I started at Sun, I was a lowly failure analysis technician, the good jobs went to Stanford grads, DeVRY grads needed to come in through the back door. Eventually made my way into engineering and then SunLabs (where the real party was).
#suntember #sparcstation #sparcstation2 #sunw -
The third and final #SPARCStation from storage. Another #SS20 with EPROM and two Seagate Barracuda SCSI HDD, CDROM, and an updated, third-party Ross CPU module.
I think the remaining Sun/Sparc stuff are peripherals.
Next steps: Solaris OS installation/upgrade, development environment!
#SunMicrosystems #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #RISC #Sparc #Solaris #SunOS
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Here are the next two #SparcStation pizza boxen. One is an #SS5 the other an #SS20 like the first.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Sun #SunMicrosystems #unix
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Here are the next two #SparcStation pizza boxen. One is an #SS5 the other an #SS20 like the first.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Sun #SunMicrosystems #unix
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Here are the next two #SparcStation pizza boxen. One is an #SS5 the other an #SS20 like the first.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Sun #SunMicrosystems #unix
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Here are the next two #SparcStation pizza boxen. One is an #SS5 the other an #SS20 like the first.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Sun #SunMicrosystems #unix
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Here are the next two #SparcStation pizza boxen. One is an #SS5 the other an #SS20 like the first.
#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Sun #SunMicrosystems #unix