[SunRescue] Re: [RE: [SunRescue] Sun Classic]

[Arnach]

Too bad theres no room in a GDM1662b especially for the power supply --
unless you want to use 10kv? It could be done but it would only be a few MV.

Aaron Finley

James Lockwood <james at vaneyck.Gii.Getty.EDU> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> 
> > The Classic is a late-model lunchbox, like an LX but with a little less 
> > oomph.
> 
> It has identical "oomph" in the CPU department.  The only differences 
> between the LC and LX are:
> 
> LX has cg6 framebuffer instead of cg3, expandable to 2mb for higher 
> resolutions.
> 
> LX has ISDN and CS4215 mmcodec (same as SS10/SS20) for stereo CD-quality 
> audio instead of the LC's AMD 79C30 (same chipset as the sun4c's).
> 
> > I think the Classic X was intended to be an X-terminal, probably booting 
> > from a bootp server on the network.  Why they put it in a lunchbox, rather

> > than making it an all-in-one like the SLC/ELC, I dunno.
> 
> The Classic X does a conventional Sun rarp/tftp boot, it was a 
> cost-reduced design for those users who didn't need much computing power.
> 
> A color ELC-style Classic would be fun, and it probably wouldn't even be 
> too hard to build (grab an old GDM-16xx and cram the mb inside).  Without 
> a hard drive you might still be able to get away with convective cooling 
> only.
> 
> -James
> 
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