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  1. Fuck, a #Sun Ultra 25 for next to nothing, but pickup only. On the other side of Finland, literally. Damn.
    #sunmicrosystems #ultrasparc #solaris

  2. Fuck, a #Sun Ultra 25 for next to nothing, but pickup only. On the other side of Finland, literally. Damn.
    #sunmicrosystems #ultrasparc #solaris

  3. Fuck, a #Sun Ultra 25 for next to nothing, but pickup only. On the other side of Finland, literally. Damn.
    #sunmicrosystems #ultrasparc #solaris

  4. Fuck, a #Sun Ultra 25 for next to nothing, but pickup only. On the other side of Finland, literally. Damn.
    #sunmicrosystems #ultrasparc #solaris

  5. Fuck, a #Sun Ultra 25 for next to nothing, but pickup only. On the other side of Finland, literally. Damn.
    #sunmicrosystems #ultrasparc #solaris

  6. Found an SS10 with a ZX card. Seller is asking USD 700. What happened to these people? Also, as expected, NVRAM is dead, so they are asking USD 700 for a machine that needs immediate computer surgery, both AUI and TP interfaces failing internal loopbacks (prolly NVRAM, not a dead LANCE chip – its register tests are passing) and no keyboard.

    So the ZX is basically worthless without a Type 4/5 keyboard and it also needs a DB13W3-capable monitor

    #retrocomputing #sunmicrosystems #vintagecomputing

  7. #RetroComputing an old #SunMicrosystems buddy in New Jersey is cleaning out his basement collection of (mostly) working systems Ultra 1, Ultra 10, V210, V65X and Cobalt Cube. He says the only issue could be the drives on the V65X. Anyone want to go and get anything before they go to recycle? Happy to pass on contact info.

  8. Seventeen years ago! I bought this multi-million dollar hoard of Sun servers from a scrap yard for $300. After testing, fixing, and swapping parts to max out some of them, I traded a couple for an SGI Onyx for the museum, a few more for parts of what eventually became my personal 16-proc Origin-2000, and kept two as compute servers for my film making.

    (A maxxed-out E4000 has 14 x 400 Mhz UltraSparc II's, and 14 gig of ram (In 128meg sticks! Ha ha ha. Warm.)).

    #RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems #HomeLab

  9. A shirt from the good old days, when corporate swag had high quality fabric with an embroidered logo. This one is a long-sleeved shirt with the Solaris logo.

    #Sun #SunMicrosystems #Solaris

  10. Pulled out the old folio I keep next to the bed as I needed to sketch something.

    Had forgotten this is an old #SunMicrosystems branded item.

    Got to love the slogan:

    We're the dot in .com™

    It's best to not try and think about that concept too much I reckon.

  11. Various assortments of #RetroComputing on display, literally something for everyone.

    A few #SunMicrosystems workstations, lots of vintage Apple stuff.

    Still wrapped, new old stock software that somehow survived all these years.

  12. I got a type 6 a few days ago. When it arrived it was in good shape but somehow while sitting in my pile of keyboards one of the hinged feet has just disappeared and I can't find it. Alas! Alack! Woe is me!

    Don't suppose anyone has one that they can spare from a broken device do they? Or know where I can buy a replacement?

  13. OTD 1989: #SunMicrosystems announces the SPARCstation 1, aka Sun 4/60, aka "Campus".
    Also first use of SBus.

    theretroweb.com/motherboards/s

  14. @BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. begat . Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like and .

  15. @BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. #SunMicrosystems begat #OpenSolaris. Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat #IllumOS by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like #OmniOS and #Tribblix.

  16. @BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. #SunMicrosystems begat #OpenSolaris. Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat #IllumOS by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like #OmniOS and #Tribblix.

  17. @BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. #SunMicrosystems begat #OpenSolaris. Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat #IllumOS by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like #OmniOS and #Tribblix.

  18. @BRicker I don't think it's really diverged much. #SunMicrosystems begat #OpenSolaris. Then Oracle unbegat it and the community begat #IllumOS by forking the last free release. There are then a bunch of distributions like #OmniOS and #Tribblix.

  19. OTD 1986 (40 years!) - #SunMicrosystems "Car in Office" April Fool's Day stunt.
    Recreated in 2008 at Google - but they didn't have to move and replace walls.

    youtube.com/watch?v=cs9FjfSv6Ss

  20. Next, a SunRay Access Card...I'm not even going to say how I got this. 😊 Well, actually if memory serves, it wasn't only for the SunRays. It could be use with any box with an access card reader.

    Nice yellowing, no?

    #RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems

  21. Squeeee!!!

    I use a type 7 on my . It's a very nice keyboard. But I remember the type 6 being a bit better. And I just found one for sale on ebay!

  22. Almost up... sun-3/280 booting but not mounting /home or allowing login yet... (Realized my server rack is of the exactly appropriate age. Ha ha.)

    #RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems

  23. The rubber membrane doesn't use graphite contacts, so the gentleness is just because the rubber is thin...easy to tear.

    #RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems #USBModel6

  24. Sh*t! Worse than I thought. I couldn't see where all the tabs were to remove key panel!!

    #RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems #USBModel6

  25. Au début des années 90, RDI a eu une idée simple :
    “Et si on mettait une SPARCstation Sun… dans un portable ?”
    Résultat : le BriteLite SPARC Laptop Workstation avec CPU SPARC et Solaris.

    A lire : silicium.org/index.php/blog-ca

    #RetroComputing #Unix #SunMicrosystems #SPARC #Workstation #TechHistory #silicium

  26. Au début des années 90, RDI a eu une idée simple :
    “Et si on mettait une SPARCstation Sun… dans un portable ?”
    Résultat : le BriteLite SPARC Laptop Workstation avec CPU SPARC et Solaris.

    A lire : silicium.org/index.php/blog-ca

    #RetroComputing #Unix #SunMicrosystems #SPARC #Workstation #TechHistory #silicium

  27. Au début des années 90, RDI a eu une idée simple :
    “Et si on mettait une SPARCstation Sun… dans un portable ?”
    Résultat : le BriteLite SPARC Laptop Workstation avec CPU SPARC et Solaris.

    A lire : silicium.org/index.php/blog-ca

    #RetroComputing #Unix #SunMicrosystems #SPARC #Workstation #TechHistory #silicium

  28. Au début des années 90, RDI a eu une idée simple :
    “Et si on mettait une SPARCstation Sun… dans un portable ?”
    Résultat : le BriteLite SPARC Laptop Workstation avec CPU SPARC et Solaris.

    A lire : silicium.org/index.php/blog-ca

    #RetroComputing #Unix #SunMicrosystems #SPARC #Workstation #TechHistory #silicium

  29. Au début des années 90, RDI a eu une idée simple :
    “Et si on mettait une SPARCstation Sun… dans un portable ?”
    Résultat : le BriteLite SPARC Laptop Workstation avec CPU SPARC et Solaris.

    A lire : silicium.org/index.php/blog-ca

    #RetroComputing #Unix #SunMicrosystems #SPARC #Workstation #TechHistory #silicium