[rescue] sun 3/80 worth keeping ?

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Jun 25 08:36:12 CDT 2004


On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:43:51PM -0700, mike tuffs wrote:
> I'm trying to decide if its worth fixing the idprom on a 3/80 I've got 
> lying around. I have a sun CDROM drive & the sunos 4.0.1 ? cd which 
> supports the 3/80, so I can reload an o/s for it. The question is, is 
> it worth the effort ?
> (I've a SS1 & a couple of IPC's which are probably beyond hope, though 
> ...).
> 
> So - keep, or chuck ?

Well, i suppose you may have different values.  I'm keeping my 3/80
though.

Despite what the other guy said about the monitor, on my 3/80, the
monitor connector is a standard 13w3 connector.  You should be able to
just hook it up to any sun monitor, or most PCs monitors with a $10
adapter. 



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