@SEP@dinscurge and whoever else likes sun microsystems, lets chat about them! I for one am interested in learning all that I can about the machine I have. I certainly can’t AFFORD another one.
BTW heres the specs on my machine:
Sun Blade 2500 Desktop Workstation;
2x ultrasparc IIIi @ 1.25 ghz,
4gb total ECC Registered DDR1 ram (16 max, would love that)
XVR-600 - I have learned of a 1200. Is that a dual gpu version?
2x dvd drives, because sweg
couple other cards (usb 2.0 upgrade card, sound card tho idk why)
Currently its a testmonkey thats just testing me because I’m too stupid to get bsd yet (hurr) but the machine for sure won’t be leaving, tho I do have some for sale if anyone is interested.
also thx @kewldude007 I wish youda kept one to play with they’re super cool. I will mail you one back if you’d like.
For anyone also interested in just learning random crap like I do, do you have any videos of info that helped you solve something? Maybe a walkthrough of your fave machine? Don’t be afraid to post!
was scsi ultra this isn’t the common 711 this is a older model
for what it was and how loud it was the drives never failed and had ok read write for the time.
i got these from a school computer surplus sale many years ago and are now gone i want one again to make a sleeper itx in
It should be pinned, we used to have clubs based on socket type and they were very popular, until the got unpinned.
Maybe a Sun and Sparc Workstation club.
I remember when Computer magazines would have a “workstation shootout” with the sun and Sparc and some others. It was kinda like when Car and Driver would have a supercar comparison. You knew you could never afford to own one but reading about how fast and expensive they were was fun.
Just the liscence for the OS cost more then some homebuilt gaming rigs
idk what do you want specced out? you getball the cards either way cuz I ain’t sellin that shit solo.
idk 250 for my current silver unit, with the 48gb and 78 gb 10KR drives, 1.67ghz ultrasparc IIIi, 2gb ram, xvr600, sound card,ub 2, even send my openbsd 6.4 install on the drives lol.
It was certainly cheaper… but the 4000T wasn’t released for something like 4 years later, and still with no DSP, by then the poor Amiga was looking pretty dated (I know, I know, Babylon 5 and all that). The A3000 released around the same time as the NeXTcube is by rights the best Amiga, done properly with no penny pinching. But I am biased, on a School science trip circa 1992/3 I got to have a go on one of the first VR systems powered by the Amiga 3000. It was awesome…
Back to the Sun, I remember being awed by the big cabinets we had in the Blockbuster International HQ in the UK when I started work there in 2000. They ran all the CRM and reporting databases and somehow looked cooler than the IBM AS400’s they were stood near. They were still there when I left in 2006 and I wouldn’t be surprised if they remained in use until Blockbuster UK finally closed. I imagine they kept a lot of outdated stuff running until the end - barely any budget to renew or replace and the Suns were reliable if I remember correctly.
Well that and sparc is as stupid powerful as power. Plug another one in, get more.
That, and once you invest 120k into a mainframe like that you’d rather keep that and do dirt cheap upgrades until its too much, or better solutions exist.
…I remember when we had a big clear up in the server and build rooms and piled up all this old kit to be trashed. I was the Operator on duty and facilities turned up and asked what needed to go, we showed them and helped them take it all out to the skip/dumpster and off it all went…
…next day boss comes in and asks where the RAM upgrade kits are (I can’t remember if they were for the Suns or AS400’s.) we couldn’t find them. Cue our manager driving as fast as she could to the recycling center were everything was sent
