[SunRescue] Sun stuff from the swap meet

[Paul Khoury]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:09:35 -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:53:19AM -0800, Paul Khoury wrote:
>> If anyone needs any, I got 2 13W3 cables from the swap meet (one
>> is a Sun part, which I'm keeping).
>> Also have 2 13W3 female to 4 BNC cables, Sun parts (530-1446-03).
>> And for me, a SPARCbook 2 to play with (it was only 20 bucks).
>> Does anyone know anything about the SPARCbooks?
>
>*cough* http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/sparcbook
>
>However, the SB2 is *nothing* at all like the SPARCbook 3GX, the ones that
>flooded the market recently.  Its proprietary and requires Tadpole's specail
>version of SunOS (and Solaris is not available for it).  Not bad for $20,
>tho.

S***, ****, ****...

Oh well, I powered it up with an adapter from my ThinkPad, and it actually works.
HD doesn't work.
Just disassembled the unit, and I found an extra surface mount cap loose.
Not good, but it passed all the diags.  I was assuming the Active Matrix LCD alone
was worth that.

I used to own a 3GX, but it was flaky.  Too bad, that was my first SPARC (and the fastest
one I owned, too).
And I thought the 3GX was proprietary - I paid 50 bucks for Solaris 2.3 Tadpole Edition
(the system couldn't even boot 2.6, on the same drive that works on my other 7 SPARCs with
the same CD LOL).

And 2.3 was bad (probably the equivalent of Mac OS 7.1 IMO).

Just my 3 cents... =)