[rescue] SPARCstation SLC connector pinout

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, Mouse wrote:

> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:35:02 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>> This whole thread makes me imagine something like the Pine64
>> Clusterboard[0], only for ELCs and SLCs instead of little ARM
>> boards--even if that'd mean abandoning the nicest feature of the SLC
>> and ELC system.  Those black and white CRTs were perfection.
>
> Well, I'd prefer better resolution; I had one bwtwo that could drive
> 1600x1200.  _That_ was nice.

1600x1200 at that size might've been a bit of a squish.  For that small
size of monitor 1152x900 felt just fine.  If there were a 20-inch
version that did 1600x1200 so crisply, I'd probably stil be running one
for tasks that are just writing.

Somehow the very nice flat panel displays we have in the 21st century
just don't feel as comfortable on the eyes as I remember those old
monochrome tubes feeling.  It's probably just nostalgia.

> That said...well, I'm not familiar with the Pine64 Clusterboard,

And I left that pointer dangling.

      https://www.pine64.org/clusterboard/

In short, it's a version of their carrier board for their SO-DIMM format
systems that holds 7 boards, brings the GPIO pins out to headers, brings
the Ethernet pins to an on-board unmanaged switch, and provides
facilities for power, a real-time clock, and one 1000baseTX port to the
outside world.

About the only thing not lovely about it is that the supported modules
all have 2GB memory or less, which gets consumed pretty quickly in the
world of Linux distributions.  I do hope they re-spin that concept as
they introduce most boards based on the larger RockChip CPUs and RISC-V
CPUs.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA