[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Lionel Peterson]

The LX was a fun box, I remember at my 3rd job we used them as print servers
for a long time, mainly because they folded into our Solaris development
network so well and we had so many lying around as displaced workstations.

Ken

> On Jun 13, 2021, at 00:40, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>
> o;?On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Walter Belgers wrote:
>
>> Britelite-LX
>
> There's a machine I somehow missed "back in the day."  The SPARCstation
> LX was the first SPARC system I owned, and I miss it dearly.  I'd always
> wondered why Sun decided to mount the rear connectors on that
> paddle-board.
>
> The Britelite-LX's advertising brochure explains it!  I had no idea the
> main logic board was available as an embeddable product under the name
> "SPARCengine LX."  I wonder where else it showed up.  There can't have
> been too many applications where a 50MHz microSPARC was enough to get
> the job done, but power draw of the GX accelerator would've been
> acceptable overhead.  Even Sun's SPARCstorage Array used a different
> controller board (although with a 50MHz microSPARC).
>
> --
> Jonathan Patschke
> Austin, TX
> USA
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