Fwd: [rescue] Sun2/120 SunOS 3.2 suntools movie (was: advise on Sun2 disk install)

I thought folk might enjoy this short-ish (~12min) Youtube video showing startup of arguably the first ever Sun workstation, from a contemporaneous SunOS... I did. Permission obtained before x-posting, naturally. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Walter Belgers <walter+rescue at belgers.com> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 12:34 Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun2/120 SunOS 3.2 suntools movie (was: advise on Sun2 disk install) To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org> Hi, Another update in case you are interested: I rescued a keyboard and mouse to go with the Sun2. I also installed SunOS 3.2 on disk. I took a different route: I installed FreeBSD, installed tme on top of that and using the information at https://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/ <https://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/>, http://www.heeltoe.com/index.php?n=Retro.Sun2 <http://www.heeltoe.com/index.php?n=Retro.Sun2> and http://typewritten.org/Projects/Sun/8-4841.html <http://typewritten.org/Projects/Sun/8-4841.html> I installed SunOS 3.2 from virtual tapes onto a virtual harddrive. I then copied the virtual drive to a real drive and hooked it up. I could then boot SunOS 3.2! I then took the one TTL monitor I have (for the 2/50) and hooked it up to a bwtwo. At first it did not work, apparently it must be in a specific slot. I added 1MB as well, so the cage is fully populated. That extra MB is used by the btwo. The monitor still worked and I was able to run the graphical windowing system. I had the system on the internet for a couple of hours yesterday, some people logged in remotely and it still felt surprisingly fast. Only when you start hammering the disk it is slow (SCSI-1 is slower than ESDI drives I read). I made a movie of the box, it can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/CoAYs0Uc7As <https://youtu.be/CoAYs0Uc7As> Cheers, Walter. _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue