Subject: Re: SparcStation 10
From: Shortpier (shortpier@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 15:16:24 AKST
the mouse can be bought online, and I just looked at my Sun keyboard it is
an 8 pin cable but I see no way to detach it. I can let you borrow my
keyboard and mouse if you want to give it a try.
Shortpier
10 mins, Bill Gates, and a Baseball Bat.... Is this to much to ask God?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gribbin" <jewelrysupplier@gci.net>
To: "Shortpier" <shortpier@hotmail.com>
Cc: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: SparcStation 10
> Actually, this one has a 2.15G main drive and a 4.29G aux drive,
> on-board nic and came with a Sun 19" color monitor. I have the Sun
> keyboard, but someone apparently ran off with the keyboard-cable and
> mouse.
>
> I haven't figured out the processor and memory yet.
>
> On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 13:56, Shortpier wrote:
> > I have a sparc server 10 Slowaris is way to slow on em and yes you can
dual
> > boot (but not worth the effort) Mandrake 7.1 runs nice on it.
> >
> > The problem is the sparc station/server 10 has no internal HD you have
to
> > have the external HD cage and and scsi CDROM for it. Also takes a High
end
> > monitor and a $60 dollar adapter to conect to a non sun monitor (need a
> > multi freq with weird scan in it). It should have 1 or 2 40 mhz sparc1
CPUS
> > in it. Mine has dual scsi, dual nics (one is on the scsi card and both
Nics
> > have the same MAC go figure). They make a nice X11 app server and file
> > space do to the WIDE sparc bus, can handle lots of clients and traffic
but
> > the bus is SLOW (makes a nice NAT firewall box, web server etc) I
normal
> > mount a nfs file system from one of my other boxen for access to larger
> > files etc as that generation uses a scsi2 (50 pin).
> >
> > Keyboard and Mouse are standandard sun hardware (any sun keyboard and
mouse
> > willl work) The Mouse plugs into the keyboard and the keyboard into
the
> > box.
> >
> > This help?
> >
> > Shortpier
> > 10 mins, Bill Gates, and a Baseball Bat.... Is this to much to ask God?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Gribbin" <jewelrysupplier@gci.net>
> > To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 3:24 PM
> > Subject: SparcStation 10
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I scored a Sun SparcStation 10 someone was throwing out. Literally.
> > > Pulled it from a dumpster. It seems to be reasonably complete except
for
> > > a keyboard-cable and mouse. Does anyone know where I could come up
with
> > > these items?
> > >
> > > Would also appreciate any tips or advise on setting up this thing.
Will
> > > probably put Linux on this thing unless it already has Solaris. Do
these
> > > things dual-boot?
> > > --
> > > Jim Gribbin <jewelrysupplier@gci.net>
> > > Anchorage Jewelry Supply
> > >
> > >
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