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

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021, Mike Spooner wrote:

> When I attended an SMCC training course in Reading, Q1 1998, in the
> Sun offices they were using a fleet of SPARCclassic and LX machines as
> door-stops. Actual door-stops. I was distrought.

Running then-current Solaris, they were better for little more.  Editing
papers (using nothing more than vi and LaTeX or roff) was an exercise in
patience--although still less frustrating than trying to accomplish the
same with Cygwin.  The bloat of a Solaris 2.6 installation was more than
the little lunchboxes could handle for interactive use.  Solaris 7 was a
lot better, but still required significant pruning so as not to be
constantly paging.

Running Red Hat Linux, they were far more useful--at least, between
OOPSes.  I got more use out of the LX running it for file-serving and
background tasks than I ever did as a workstation, but I doubt SMCC
would've ever run the same setup I had--with an SGI as the frontend. :)

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Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA