Solaris 8 Sparc (great responses)

Thanks much to all who have responded to the quest for media. I am now hopefully in possession of ISO images that will install. I bought two cheap tadpoles off of a fellow in MD who keeps coughing up and listing them. They were sold as is with defects for cheap, which is always a way to suck me into a new project. I am hoping one of these or one of my IPC's will allow a small Sparc system to run online. The alternative is to run the Ultra 5 I have, and I should probably give in to that, but these are a different earlier architecture and interesting for that reason. I will be asking more on tadpole issues sometime soon. http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2014/06/sparcbook3gx-and-sparcbook-3000xt-b… I have a Sparcbook 3 which arrived yesterday. There is another 3tx on the way to arrive next week. All work but have no media. Two have batteries which I hope may serve are rebuild articles for a local battery pack rebuild operation if I get really brave. I see that to hook up physical exernal SCSI I need an adapter for the weird square high density connector to probably the 50 pin variety. If anyone here knows of a source or has spares, I'd love to get them. I found a very nice and friendly (and pretty dead) mailing list, and harrassed a member (He may be on here too) who mentioned having some spares laying about. I did get a positive response, but at this time I'd take all the disk carriers and oddball disks anyone might spare to get at least one or two for these to make a proper portable unit. I appreciate all the help from the list, and will try to respond to all the offline messages. thanks to all Jim On 7/19/2014 6:43 AM, Erik Baigar wrote: