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4 Dec
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There are also the Fujitsu LeiA SPARC portables. I?ve used OPENSTEP 4.2 on one?
-- Chris
On Dec 3, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
A company called RDI made the Britelite and Powerlite laptops. They eventually merged
with Tadpole, which made its own SPARC laptops (SPARCbooks). As someone else mentioned,
there were different Britelite models based on the various Sun lunchbox system boards.
When I had my Britelite IPX on display on VCF, someone told me that they recognized the
case as something used in another laptop.
Sun never made their own laptop, but they made a portable called the SPARCstation
Voyager.
On 12/3/18 7:33 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
Very Nice collection! Yes have to love that
laptop. Did not know SUN made one. or I guess a third party put the Sun goodies in
a case of their design? either way NEAT!
Seeing a nice run of systems like this in wonderful condition is great!
Ed#
In a message dated 12/2/2018 5:49:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:
I will have to get back with you on the audio. It is on offline backup
media and I need to find it.
Here is a link to some photos of the exhibit -
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7qC8UbEYCeCf9CBo7
The RDI Britelite (laptop) is a SPARCstation IPX system board in a
laptop chassis. It was in the Day 1 exhibit, but not the Day 2 exhibit
because the power adapter died on the morning of the second day.
One of the photos is an opened-up SPARCstation LX, which is very similar
on the inside to your IPC.
My exhibit next year will be on early 90s SPARC clones.
alan
On 12/2/18 1:43 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
Alan... would love a copy of the audio
for our archives here.
Would like to see pix of your display too sounds neat!
Any other files text or otherwise welcome also to this address or drop us
a dropbox link
The Sun workstations I never knew too much about as at the time did not seems
like old history nor did we use any so playing catchup!
Thanks in advance...
Ed#
In a message dated 12/2/2018 12:44:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org> writes:
There is only room for drives in the top half of the chassis. The PSU
and an assembly that holds the drives fills the top half. A 3.5"
half-height drive fits in one side of the assembly and a 3.5" floppy
drive fits in the other. The PSU cables go from the rear to the front of
that side of the chassis, below the FDD (when the chassis is closed).
I did an exhibit on Sun lunchbox systems, including the IPC (4/40), for
PNW VCF earlier this year. I looked for press kits, posters, etc. to use
in the exhibit, but could only find text files. I know people who worked
at Sun on the development of those early SPARCstations and none of them
had any of that kind of material.
I had an audio cassette "Introducing the IPC" for Sun sales. I donated
it to CHM this year (but I ripped the audio before I sent it to them).
alan
On 12/2/18 10:13 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
> Thanks for the info to get it open! when back at the office shall do
that.. there may be drives in 2 places - on board and the off board one. Always
interesting to explore something one has only read about!
>
>
>
> Along the same line of UNIX stuff we have a COBALT 1U Pretty blue sever
and a COBALT CUBE. I do remember lusting after one of these 1U COBALT servers
when they were current didn't have anything in the budget back then though for
one. I have been told SUN eventually ended up owning COBALT.
>
> As will all that we have we are looking for any ad slicks press kits
posters, wild artwork for the Sun $/40, and the 2 COBALT machines..
>
> Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC www.smecc.org <http://www.smecc.org>
>
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> In a message dated 12/1/2018 8:15:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time, aperry at
snowmoose.com <mailto:aperry at snowmoose.com> writes:
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>
> Yes. It is next to floppy in the upper half of the chassis. There is a 50-pin (IDC
connectors) ribbon cable that goes down to system board at the bottom of the lower half of
the chassis. The chassis splits in the vertical middle in a, if looking at the chassis,
fairly obvious place. Because of the cables that run from the top to bottom, it
effectively hinges at the front of the chassis. There a couple buttons on the side to
release and sometimes a security cable bit to remove (phillips screw).
>
> On 12/1/18 7:08 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
> Hi Alan - The hard drive is same size cabinet.... with I guess a SCSSI cable.
I will have to look at it further... wonder if starting it out on a variac
would help the capacitors like I do with the old radio sets here in the museum ed#
>
>
> In a message dated 12/1/2018 8:04:03 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> aperry at snowmoose.com <mailto:aperry at snowmoose.com> writes:
>
> Well, as I said, in my experience, the NVRAMs that you can buy new from Mouser work
good enough. And the mod to the original battery isn't that hard to make.
>
> In my experience with IPCs, the bigger problem is the power supplies. If the PS on
the IPC that you have now doesn't need to be re'capped now, it will need it soon.
After that will likely be the HDD that needs work. Almost all of my HDDs that originally
shipped with lunchbox systems up to the 424 meg (ST1480N) have died. The price for working
50-pin SCSI HDDs are at a point that SD2SCSI parts make more sense (unless you want to
exhibit them as they originally ran).
>
> alan
>
> On 12/1/18 6:55 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
> BUMMER
> It may become a static display.....
>
> Ed#
>
>
> In a message dated 12/1/2018 7:53:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org> writes:
>
> A 4/40 is a SPARCstation IPC. It used a M48T02 NVRAM for the IDPROM.
>
> Yes, one with the dreaded battery.
>
> alan
>
> On 12/1/18 5:04 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
>> we were given this and a hard dribe a floor standimg decwriter..... does this use
NV ram with dreaded battery? thanks,ed
>>
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