17 Jul
1999
17 Jul
'99
3:44 p.m.
Well, not being familiar with Sun 3's, but recognizing the Clearpoint name,
I'd guess it is a 3rd Party RAM board. Does the board have much of
anything that looks like something other than RAM chips?
As for the low serial number, I've no idea how many Sun 3's were made
either, but I wouldn't read anything into the Serial Number. A 1Mb RAM
board for a Workstation, at that time would have probably cost a small
fortune, and not been produced in very large numbers.
Zane
I picked up a Sun 3/260 and a 3/280 yesterday. After
pulling all the VME
boards from the /280, I found one I didn't recognize....
Board marked:
Clearpoint Research
SNX2RAM/8 Rev A
Serial Num 639
Copyright 1988
Major chips: (lines seperated by /)
N8X401I/ABW7840
CSI 5134/NCR0380477/F830215 F8816
CSI 5133/NCR0380475/F828347 N8749
Anyone have a clue what this is? The guy I got it from said he was told
it was an FPU. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's also
got what appears to be 1mb of SRAM on it. The low serial number makes me
think its something a bit specialized, but I don't really have any idea
how many Sun3s were sold to compare that with.
thanks
mid
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