31 Jan
2004
31 Jan
'04
2:11 p.m.
I'm still tickled at having a pair of SM91's -
I'd never
seen any 'til these showed up on eBay. Got a late PROM for
my SS20 and brought 'em up, but it kept crashing when I
wasn't paying attention, so they're waiting for more round
tuit's to accumulate.
What is an SM91? I've not heard of that one! Based on the info I just pulled up, and
the SM71's and SM81's, I'm assuming that it's a 95Mhz SuperSparc II CPU.
Now there is a card to make me jealous! Though I don't think I'd want to try and
keep a dual SS20 with those in it!
Don't know if turning funny colors is called for,
but my
favorites are the SWIFT combo cards - hme 100baseT and a
"fast" wide SCSI interface.
That one just makes me slightly green. I find a 4-Port Quad more useful, and am actually
using one of the Combo cards simply as a Narrow SCSI interface.
I suddenly doubled the number of SBus cards I own when
I
was picking up SS1000 system boards. I've got hold of 8
SM81's to load up an SS1000, and three of the later "E"
system boards, and am hoping that it'll all work with a
non-"E" enclosure/backplane. That thing's heavy, I don't
relish having to swap it to make that happen...
Putting together a SS1000 with 8 SM81's would make an interesting desktop to play
with, unfortunately I don't really have room for one (and yes, I do know they really
aren't that big, I'm that short on space).
Zane
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