From: Bob Shannon
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 5:53 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Sun clones, was Re: Sun Sparc ID
I see people on the list understand these little pizza-box machines.
I'll have to confess to total ignorance of
the Sun workstations (having been a Domain OS user), but while removing
some test equipment that had been left behind when a large company
moved, I grabbed the following Sun clones:
(they need homes, as the space they are taking up is worth more to me
than they are...)
Axil 320, no so loaded, but interesting.
The motherboard on the 320 is interesting, the simm slots have
extensions for even wider simm modules. There are four of these
extensions but only 2 are populated with contacts, each adding 36
contacts to the simm slot. I've never seen a simm like this. The simm
modules installed do not use these extended contacts.
It sounds a lot like the DIMM sockets in the Sparc 20. If so, the slots with
the extensions can accomodate three kinds of DIMMS:
- Regular Sparc 10/20/... memory DIMMS
- 4mb or 8mb VDIMM (VRAM for onboard 24-bit framebuffer)
- 2mv NVRAM DIMM used by the Prestoserve software
I'm curious... how much do you want for it?
<<<john>>>