Ray Arachelian wrote:
Don Y wrote:
Even luckier -- it *came* with it! ;-)
Very lucky indeed!
I originally hoped to put it in the kitchen as a
nice
little email box (but I have been overruled on that idea :< )
Yeah, wives are interesting creatures. :-) That's where I had mine for
the longest time - the voyager, not the wife. :-)
Amazing how a few computers meets with disdain... yet a
closet full of *shoes* doesn't! :-/
(and shoes are so BORING! Hell, if it doesn't have blinkenlights,
what good is it??)
But two years ago, I found myself a decent job that
provided a lovely
thinkpad with a dock, so the Voyager went into the museum. Granted,
they can do NFS, but these machines are already painfully slow to begin
Yup. I have mine on a small UPS so that I could dial out, etc.
even if there's a power outage. But, we have so few outages
here (and never any of more than 30 minute duration) *and*
I now have laptops to throw at that problem so it's kind of
just taking up space... :-(
with. Anything you can add to speed them up helps.
1GB CF cards are
cheap and fast these days, maybe you can go that route with a cheap
PCMCIA<->CF cradle. You probably can't boot the voyager off a CF card,
but, you can certainly store swap+/tmp and /home there. When I had the
Voyager on the kitchen table I had two 128M CF cards in it, so that way
swap was distributed across two drives. I don't recall whether the
PCMCIA bus on these multi-tasks well enough to get a performance
increase, but I hoped it did. :-D
I had hoped NetBSD would eventually bring their support up to a
level that would let me replace Solaris on that box (since NBSD
seems pretty respectable on older SPARCs) but that hasn't yet
happened.
I got rid of most of my sparcs, but held on to a few
interesting
ones... For a short while, my house was "sparc-henge."
Makes one wonder what sort of rituals took place on the equinox...
Thanks,
I'll save the pointers in case I decide to bite the
bullet.
Old Macs used SCSI. Did old apple laptops *also* use
SCSI drives? (i.e. might that be a source I can check out?)
Yes, most of the
early used use SCSI drives (Duo 230, PB145, etc). Some
of the newer ones (5300ce), use IDE which makes life easier. It used to
be that SCSI got you better performance, but of course modern 2.5" IDE
drives are a lot faster than the older 2.5" SCSI drives used in these
beasties.
I will have to check my surplus sources and see what turns up.