[rescue] Sun 3/60

[Kurt Nowak]

Agree. I'm also running SunOS on all my Sun3s. Runs great on my 3/60 and
3/50. Easy and well documented installation procedures. The remote CD
install was quite handy too assuming you have the the latest Boot ROM. I
tried NetBSD on my 3/80 and it was painfully slow. The install instructions
were absolutely horrible for that architecture from what I recall.

-Kurt

On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 10:26 Dan Moisa via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> Really recommend running vintage on this machine
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 10:22 Cameron Kelly via rescue <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> 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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