[rescue] All this talk of X Terminals has me wondering...

[Lionel Peterson]

A quick review of the box looks more like a *huge* LX (VSIMM, 128 Meg
RAM max., etc) - mine has a TGX in the slot, a VSIMM (but can not do
dual-head :^( ) and a whopping 50 Mhz CPU.

The PS look exceptionally teeny (50 watt?!), no SCSI on-board, and one
SBUS slot...

I may try the SCSI card trick (to run Solaris), could be neat to run,
but it seems the X Terminal software is a special (stand-alone) product
;^( looking at the box further, it may make a neat printer server (the
parallel port could drive a nice laserjet)...

Ah well, we shall see... 

Lionel

--- James Lockwood <james at foonly.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 
> > dave at cca.org wrote:
> >
> > > The SS5 SCSI is on the motherboard. Making a different version
> > > of the motherboard seems odd.
> >
> > Not that I've seen ALL or even MOST, but AFIK, the ROMS checked a
> bit in
> > the battery backed up ram. Set one way it was an SS5, set the other
> it was
> > an X-terminal and SCSI did not work.
> 
> This is only the case with the SparcClassic X.  The Sparc Xterminal 1
> used a different board than every other Sun system.
> 
> It can more properly be thought of as an emasculated SS4.  It's
> slower
> (50MHz microSparc), has fewer SIMM slots (4 vs. 5) but has the same
> TCX
> framebuffer with VSIMM slot, one Sbus slot and the same audio
> connector
> (which is the same as on the E450, surprise surprise).  It uses the
> same
> MACIO/SLAVIO as the SS4/SS5.
> 
> With a bit of work, you can use them as regular systems.  You're
> stuck
> with either netbooting or putting a SCSI card into the Sbus slot,
> though.
> 
> -James
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