4 Oct
1997
4 Oct
'97
2:30 p.m.
Regarding the Sun machine, it's a workstation-style case with a 17" (or
19"??) monitor attached to a base. It has an Ethernet port, 2 serial ports,
and a SCSI port. The monitor has a DB9 connection, and the keyboard is a DB15.
Unfortunately, there was no keyboard/mouse and no monitor cable. Can anyone
help me out with these parts?
You actually don't NEED a keyboard and mouse. You can hook up a dumb
terminal (or computer running a com program) on Serial port A and it'll
default to using that port as console. You may or may not need to take
out the graphics adapter (or is it built-in on the 3/50? I can't
remember). The port runs at 9600 baud, with 7E1 prefered over 8N1, but I
think both work.
OSes that'll run on the machine at NetBSD, SunOS, Linux(?) and
older versions of Solaris(?). Although the Sun3 version of Linux is still
somewhat alpha and Solaris would be a nightmare (imagine Win95 on a
386SX-16). NetBSD'd probably be the choice.
For more info on the machine, search for the "sun hardware faq", and you
might look into the "suns at home" mailing list.