[rescue] Sun 486i !!

[Geoff Koehler]

Hi Curt and  All,

This is extremely cool, and you are right - an important rescue.  If you have pics of it, please send them my(our) way - I have never seen one.  And speaking of rescues, does anyone want a nice, complete stardent titan 3000?  I need to make more room, but cant bear to throw it out.

-- 
Cheers,
	Geoff.

                                  
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DOn Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:16:11 -0500 (EST)
"Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net> wrote:

> Not a myth.  I have a complete 486i, and an extra mainboard (although I
> don't have the processor board for it, and I don't even know if it works).
> 
> I also have the original 4.0.3 beta SunOS OS tapes.
> 
> Definately not a myth.  Powered by Intel 486DX25.  I'm thinking that if
> it doesn't upset the OBP, that a 486DX2/50 would make a nice upgrade for
> it (like processing power would really even matter in a one of kind
> prototype like this... but if it has a ZIF socket, I might try it).
> 
> It's not up and running... I rescued it, and never got around to setting
> it up and installing it... but I knew it was important to rescue... !
> 
> I won't get into where, how, or the effort I went through to rescue this
> thing from the scrap dump in the sky !
> 
> -- Curt
> 
> >Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:05:16 -0600
> >From: Geoff Koehler <koehler at shaw.ca>
> >To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: [rescue] Sun 486i !!
> >
> >> I also have a 486i (of which I think there were less than 200 made and
> >> they were all prototype/demo).  It too was an east coast project.
> >
> >Sun 486i !!   Pictures, please :) - I thought these were myths.......
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >Cheers,
> >	Geoff.
> >
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