[SunRescue] got my weirdsparc board from ebay in

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 11:25 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Cc: james at foonly.com
> Subject: [SunRescue] got my weirdsparc board from ebay in
> 
> 
> I finally got my "mysterious sparc board" from eBay in, 
> thanks to another
> list member who realized he'd gotten mine, and forwarded it 
> on.  I ordered
> two, but ended up only getting one.. oh well 8-)

Ah, luck dog.  Guess I'll have to email and badger again, still waiting.

> 
> Well, the thing that looks like a 9-pin serial port, is 
> marked "serial port
> A".  We have "external scsi in", "external scsi out", and 
> also "internal
> scsi" with a 4-prong power attachment for the drive.  Looks 
> like a PS/2-style
> power supply connector (james?).  3 SBus "slots", altho 

All of the SBUS connectors are there, just nothing to support the "outside"
edge of the card, right?

> there's a 34-pin
> ribbon cable connector marked "ethernet" and a 50-pin ribbon 
> cable connector
> marked "parallel port".
> 
> i'm thinking that if I can find the right RAM for this beast 
> (looks like 72pin
> SIMMs), the right power supply, I can at least try to boot it 

Pretty sure that they are 72-pin simms, try stealing some out of one of
those lunchboxes that you must have around someplace.  

> up via a serial
> terminal connected to the serial port A.  If I can get it 
> fully working with
> a SCSI hard drive connected to the internal scsi port, and 
> figure out what
> I need to do to turn the 34-pin ribbon cable connector into a 
> normal Ethernet
> port of some kind (AUI, etc), I might be able to turn this 
> into a cool 
> "sparc under plexiglass" NFS server or something on my network.
> 
> James, any thoughts?  Have you gotten yours yet?

IIRC, James said that he got his a while ago...
	Greg