15 Aug
2007
15 Aug
'07
8:38 a.m.
--- Wouter <cctech at retro.co.za> wrote:
Drove up to Johannesburg from Cape Town (about a
thousand miles each way)
to rescue stuff.
Osborne
Acorn RISC PC
2 x Archimedes (no keyboards)
SAM Coupe
Spectrum + DISCiple interface
SGI Indy
SGI Indigo
SGI O2
SUN Ultra 1
Nice score.
Moral question : I have Solaris 2.5, Solaris 8 and
Ubuntu Linux. The Ubuntu
complains about not enough memory (there's only 64
megs in there). But I'm
more of a Linux guy than a Solaris guy...
Linux should run just fine on the Ultra 1 - I have
used Debian on many an old Sun, and it runs well.
Nothing's stopping you from putting Linux on a Sun. If
you want to play with Solaris, you could just swap out
the hard drive. Solaris is picky about drives, Linux
could care less. Also, when running Linux, you can use
most any PCI card you want.
I did get a few CDs with Irix stuff, including the
development stuff, seems
like, and Irix 6.2 "upgrade". I'm sure I'll need
more than this to get the
SGIs up? The Indy looks fine but the O2 only comes
up now and then.
On the Octane, pull all the boards out and _carefully_
blow out the connectors with compressed air. Don't
touch the compression connectors at the end of the
board, but clean them off. This is a pretty common
problem - they use a really fancy gold springy
interconnect that gets dusty (or finger oily) and
won't work. Best blow/vacuum out the whole machine,
the top vents of those tend to accumulate dust and
crud like a dryer lint trap.
Good luck!
-Ian