[rescue] Sun 3/60

[Dave McGuire]

   Same here.  We just brought up a 3/50 at LSSM, nicely responsive 
running SunOS 4.1.1_U1, after the kernel was trimmed down.  Such great 
machines!

               -Dave

On 11/12/23 13:25, Dan Moisa via rescue wrote:
> Really recommend running vintage on this machine
> 
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 10:22 Cameron Kelly via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org 
> <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>> wrote:
> 
>      >What OS do you intend to run on it ? Vintage SunOS 4.x or some more
>      >recent NetBSD ?
> 
>     I'm not sure. Preferably both but I'm biased towards NetBSD since it's
>     easy to get a modern Unix environment going with package management
>     and whatever else going.
> 
>     On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 1:18 PM Romain Dolbeau via rescue
>     <rescue at sunhelp.org <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>> wrote:
>      >
>      > On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 09:41 Cameron Kelly via rescue
>     <rescue at sunhelp.org <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>> wrote:
>      > > Me and a friend have been toying with the idea of recreating a Sun
>      > > 3/60 from scratch
>      >
>      > What OS do you intend to run on it ? Vintage SunOS 4.x or some more
>      > recent NetBSD ?
>      >
>      > Le dim. 12 nov. 2023 à 18:51, Dan Moisa via rescue
>      > <rescue at sunhelp.org <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>> a écrit :
>      > > I'm trying to do the same thing. Here's what i have:
>      > > - a whole lot of the schematics digitized into kicad, with very
>     questionable quality - was my first project
>      > > - a bunch of 3/60 boards, homemade card adaptor to power from
>     regular PSU, keyboards, etc. in working condition
>      > > - almost all the chips including almost all the weird PAL
>     variants, unprogrammed.
>      > > - all the various info found online.
>      > > Let's chat, I can set you up with most of this if you promise
>     you don't give up like I did.
>      >
>      > A good solution might be to share that on GiHub or similar to foster
>      > collaboration.
>      > I haven't tried to recreate a system, but I've looked at the P4
>      > connector to see if I could port my '030 FPGA-base expansion design
>      > [1] to a 3/80 or 3/60. Unfortunately I don't have a 3/60 and my 3/80
>      > motherboard is dead for now so that stalled :-( But a recreated 3/60
>      > would be of interest to me for that reason. Maybe help where I can
>      > (time permitting!).
>      >
>      > Cordially,
>      >
>      > Romain
>      >
>      > [1] e.g. <https://github.com/rdolbeau/SBusFPGA
>     <https://github.com/rdolbeau/SBusFPGA>>, the closest
>      > conceptually talks to the '030 bus:
>      > <https://github.com/rdolbeau/IIsiFPGA
>     <https://github.com/rdolbeau/IIsiFPGA>>
>      >
>      > --
>      > Romain Dolbeau
>      >
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA