17 Aug
2020
17 Aug
'20
10:52 a.m.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:22:52 -0700
From: Brendan Shanks <brendan at bslabs.net>
Subject: Sun/3-powered 737 flight sim
Something that I thought the folks here would appreciate: a fellow in
Dubai is trying to keep a full-motion Boeing 737-300 sim (from 1991)
running.
The main host machine is a Sun/3E, connected over Ethernet to the operator
workstation which has 2 Sun/3Es each with a cgtwo powering a CRT touch
screen. One of the Sun VME SCSI/Ethernet boards died, and he?s been unable
to find a (working) replacement board.
There?s also a big rack of Concurrent hardware running OS/32, and some
newer PCs for visuals and TCAS.
Plenty of pictures and a video tour of all the hardware at:
<
https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/i8c8u7/how_do_i_emulate_a_sun_3e_comp…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/i8c8u7/how_do_i_emulate_a_sun_3e_comp…
I have a Sun 3/E, including a SCSI/Ethernet board, that ran fine the last
time it was powered on. There is a collector in southern Germany who also
has a 3/E board set. I didn't see any contact information for the simulator
owners.
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Michael Thompson
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Brendan