On Dec 28, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Jules wrote:
I could see that happening for a 'hobby'
machine snagged from a
dumpster if
all the person had was the CPU unit. It'd be reasonably easy to hook
some form
of graphical display to the machine, but more tricky to emulate a
missing Sun
keyboard.
Yep. Would have shipped with a Type-3, but you can do a cable adaptor
from a Type-4 or Type-5. Remember that these need ECL
displays and not
analog.
I believe that after a while the serial console will pop out with a
">", but there are no intermediate messages such as you get with a
SPARC. Haven't had one of these for a couple years, but I remember
getting the console prompt on serial when I had one
I have a DD-50 single drive enclosure and a surfeit of DD-50 -> HD-50
(SCSI-II type) cables, as well as some Type-4 keyboards in my garage. I
haven't gotten the original message yet, so I'm not sure where you are
- I'm in the Western Washington (state) area.
The 3/60 is eminently hackable - look at the Sun-3 Zoo for ideas.
People have wired in internal 1/3 ht drives (there are solder pads for
a 50-pin header on the SCSI bus) and done many other things. I run my
3/110 diskless from the network (served from an IPX, but Suns are so
standard that you should be able to use Linux or xBSD). 4.1.1_U1 is the
release of SunOS to get, and it's floating around out there.