On 06/26/2014 04:36 PM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote:
I helped clean out a storage building and have a bunch
of old SUN
stuff to find homes for.
Photos can be seen here:
http://dvq.com/sun/
I drove down to Bob's place on Friday afternoon. Bob was very welcoming,
and is a very pleasant fellow to chat with. My deepest thanks to him for
making this equipment available. Unfortunately I was delayed by heavy
traffic at several points on the way down, so I didn't have as long as I
would have liked on-site.
Bob asked me to reply to the list noting which things I had removed,
which I will do below. Hopefully this means fewer email messages to Bob
and/or the list asking: "Hi, is thing X still available?" But please
note that there's so much stuff that after I left you'd hardly notice
that anything had been taken, and due to lack of time very few of the
boxes were checked.
So, things I removed Friday afternoon (note that the Sun-3/80 pizza box
was already gone):
- Sun-4/110 and stand
- One each of SPARCstation 1, 1+, 2, and 5
- Several Sun VME boards ("SCSI 2", MCP)
- Two bare Sun-3/60 mainboards
- One bare Sun-3/80 mainboard
- SunOS 3.5 for 68020 on 5 QIC tapes
- One Sun 711 box
- Keyboards: Sun Type 5, two HP-HIL, one AT&T 7300
(several to many different keyboards left, including one sporting a
Sequent logo in style of HP 700/22 terminal, if not HP-HIL)
- One HP PA-RISC workstation model 712/60 (two left)
- One Hitachi DK515-78 ESDI drive (still sealed, 2003 receipt,
but box a bit squashed and one half of shock indicator
triggered/red)
- One DEC TZ30 tape drive
- One box of approx. two dozen 2400' 9 track tapes
- One sealed carton containing four new Flip 'n File drawers for
8" floppies
Here are some noteworthy items that were still left:
- Two Solbourne deskside/pedestals, one has what looked to be a
factory OS/MP CD taped to it
- One had several 6U VME cards fitted (don't recall for the other)
- An open box held several spare cards, topmost featuring a
SuperSPARC CPU (so, Series 6 K-Bus CPU card?)
- At least two Solbourne-branded keyboards
- Many SPARCstation 1's and 1+'s in assorted configs
- Sun Ultra 10 in unknown config
- Another Sun-4/110 CPU stand
- Another Sun 711 SCSI disk box
- Two VAXstation 4000 VLCs
- Several other VAXstations, e.g. 3100
- Several small, early IBM POWER workstations
- Two more HP 712/?? workstations
- Maybe two dozen HP CDs, including HP/UX sets (v9, v10.20)
- More keyboards of various types
- At least one more ESDI drive (per box label)
- Many 9 track tapes
- Between one and two dozen QIC tapes, mostly Sun distribution media
- Several boxed Solaris dist/media sets
- Several large boxes of random cables
- Some SCSI hard drives of various kinds
There you have it. Worth the time, if you're local and so inclined.
--Steve.
PS - Bob also has a new, tiny, adorable golden retriever puppy. And if
you take the back roads through the hills and redwoods to get there,
it's really quite beautiful.