Okay, I don't think there's any realistic chance I'm going to want all this old Sun stuff I've been hanging onto; indeed, there's a decent chance I'm never going to want _any_ of it. What chance there is is mostly in case I want to run some VMEbus hardware (for example, I think I have a relatively good VME A->D board somewhere). So I've got a bunch of 9U VME Sun stuff looking for a new home. This is all in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). I might be convinced to ship, but I would much prefer pickup; I have neither materials to pack this stuff properly nor even the knowledge to tell what materials I would need. I have three 9U VME machines. They worked last time I turned them on, but that was long enough ago that I hesitate to recommend depending on anything being in working condition. (How long? At least a decade, maybe two. They have been stored indoors - in human living quarters, not garages or warehouses or the like - for that time.) I also have some twenty-plus 9U VME boards which are not in cardcages. All part numbers here are ten-finger copies and thus may contain typos. If you suspect I've made a mistake, I can doublecheck. Machine 1: 501-1206 -3/2xx CPU non-Sun RAM (size unknown) empty slot 501-1102 8M RAM with HW patch, component side empty slot 501-1451 32M RAM with HW patch, foil side 501-1045 in 9U-to-6U adapter (internal SCSI) 501-1058 GB graphics buffer [*] 501-1055 GP graphics processor [*] 501-1170 internal SCSI, 501-1236 in 9U-to-6U adapter [*] 501-1116 cg3 framebuffer blank slot cover The three boards marked [*] have the top lever broken off. The two boards marked "HW patch" suffered physical damage to a component; in each case, I soldered in a replacement, which worked as far as I could tell. But they do require that the slot adjacent to them be empty - as configured above, the empty slot between them satisfies this criterion for both boards at once. I haven't inspected those patches to see whether they still look in good shape, but, unless etch runs have torn loose or some such, at worst they should need a little soldering. The "internal SCSI" boards have no connectors on their back panels; they appear to be designed to plug ribbon cables onto for use inside the machine. Machine 2: 501-1206 -3/2xx CPU blank slot cover 501-1102 8M RAM 501-1102 8M RAM blank slot cover 501-1254 32M RAM 501-1217 SCSI, DD-50 back-panel connector blank slot cover empty slot 501-1116 cg3 framebuffer empty slot empty slot Machine 3 is not accessible enough for me to give an inventory of its cardcage; I am convalescing from minor surgery at the moment and am not supposed to do significant physical exertion yet, so inventorying that one will have to wait a week or two, unless I can find help moving the things on top of it. Fuzzy memory says it's a Sun-4/470, but I'm also not sure I didn't empty it out of boards before my last move, so the boards from it could be in the list below. The boards not currently in any cardcages: 501-1164 -3/xxx CPU 501-1217 SCSI, DD-50 back-panel connector 501-1153 AUI Ethernet 501-1134 -3/110 CPU non-Sun RAM, size unknown 501-1153 AUI Ethernet 501-1153 AUI Ethernet non-Sun RAM, size unknown 501-1132 4M RAM 501-1333 32M RAM 501-1333 32M RAM 501-1217 SCSI, DD-50 back-panel connector 501-1217 SCSI, DD-50 back-panel connector 501-1203 16-channel ALM 501-1539 IPI disk interface 501-1381 -4/470 CPU There are also a handful more which need special remark. There are two 501-1584s. This board looks like an AUI Ethernet, but when I look up the 501-1584 number, it is apparently combination SCSI and Ethernet; I don't know whether the SCSI functionality is accessible. There is a board whose tag says it's a 501-1165, but that number appears to be a VME/Multibus adapter; the markings and connectors on the back panel make this out to be an ALM board. There is a non-Sun board from ILLIMITE INC, of Rochester NY; I don't know what it's for, except that its back panel doesn't give any hints, reducing the list of plausible candidates. There are two boards which have lost their plastic tags. I also have two torn-off plastic tags, which likely but not certainly are from those boards; they say 501-1381 and 501-1217. One of the boards is SCSI, a 501-1236 in an adapter to 3U; that is probably the 501-1217. The other is a CPU board. The ROMs are marked 525-1103 through 525-1106; combined with the other plastic tag (501-1381) and a brief look over the board, I think this is probably another -4/470 CPU board. I will be watching both my mailbox and the list for replies, but, given email's unreliability these days, I recommend not counting on it. If you have trouble getting through by email and you care to bother, I should be reachable at +1 613 482 0910. (That number goes through a VoI system I'm the primary geek behind, which puts me in enough control of its behaviour that I don't mind posting it here - it's temporary anyway; I'll take it down in at most a few months.) I also have enough of the small Allen-wrench screws Sun used to hold these boards into their cardcages that I can supply them for any boards that don't have them. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B