11 Feb
2007
11 Feb
'07
12:55 a.m.
wow Haven't seen one of these in many a day This was one of a
handful of companies that repackaged sparc motherboards in custom
enclosures for unique (read mostly govt) clients. Most of the
systems were unmodified sparc motherboards with 4? sbus slots and all
the trimmings. Besides this one, there as also an outfit in
Pasadena that built one that looked a lot like one of the old Zenith
laptops. I used one of those as a portable forensics machine for
several years in the early 90s. It came with the ability to emulate
both the PC DOS environment as well as the MAC OS. Was clunky but
it worked like a dream and gave me Unix, DOS, and Mac all in the same box.
s shumaker
At 04:34 PM 2/10/2007, you wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 2/10/07, Richard <legalize at
xmission.com> wrote:
Especially since those look to be Sbus slots.
Peace... Sridhar Never heard of one of these, but I was surprised
to read it was a Sun?
Is this an x86 Sun or a ruggedized/portable SPARC or somesuch?
From the look of the
backpanel, it sure looks like a SPARC to me
(unless there happens to be some circuit inside that converts Sun
keyboard/mouse to PC - quite unlikely).