[rescue] Sun 3/60

[Dan Moisa]

Will try to throw onto GitHub esp now with more ppl. Hopefully there's
something usable in there

On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 10:17 Romain Dolbeau <romain at dolbeau.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 09:41 Cameron Kelly via rescue <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> 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>, the closest
> conceptually talks to the '030 bus:
> <https://github.com/rdolbeau/IIsiFPGA>
>
> --
> Romain Dolbeau
>
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