30 Sep
1999
30 Sep
'99
3:49 p.m.
might be a screw in the upper back center. take that out.
towards the back on each side in the upper piece is a catch.
push the case in at these points and lift up. now take it outside
and blow the dust out. ( i dunno, every IPC and IPX I
have opened was real dusty)
any scsi drive should work. if it is a Barracuda, i would
be careful about installing it internally. heat and power
and all that. might work though, i've seen it done.
Kelly
In a message dated 9/30/99 10:40:44 PM Central Daylight Time,
rkaplan(a)accsys-corp.com writes:
Hi -
I wonder if someone could help me - I have two questions.
I recently acquired a SPARCStation IPC. I have it up and running.
The IPC's peripherals come in these lunch box style cases, "411"'s.
1. Can someone tell me how to open these cases?
2. If I have a Seagate SCSI Drive, would that be compatible with the
IPC?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Randy
30 Sep
30 Sep
3:55 p.m.
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Does anyone remember those laptop sparc-alike boxes they made for a while?
Anyone know of anyplace that's selling those now that they're obselete?
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Jim Strickland
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3:59 p.m.
New subject: Suns, etc
Does anyone remember those laptop sparc-alike boxes
they made for a while?
Anyone know of anyplace that's selling those now that they're obselete?
They seem to appear on eBay quite frequently. I'm not sure what
the price range is, I haven't followed them.
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Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
4:08 p.m.
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
Does anyone remember those laptop sparc-alike boxes
they made for a while?
Anyone know of anyplace that's selling those now that they're obselete?
Sun made the lunchbox format Voyager, which is related to the SPARCstation
LX and SPARCclassic.
The most popular OEM of SPARC laptops is Tadpole. You're most likely to
find Tadpole SPARCbook 2 or 3 series machines. The SPARCbook 2s are
similar in performance to the SPARCstation 2, and the 3s are similar in
performance to the SPARCstation 5s of various speeds.
SPARCbook 3s of various flavours appear with moderate frequency on eBay
and go for wildly varying prices. A well configured 110 MHz 3GX (colour
LCD, 1 GB disk, 64 MB RAM, some extras) should be under $1000.
ok
r.
4:45 p.m.
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Are you referring to the Tadpole sparc clones? I don't know if they
still are produced but there are plenty of them on ebay. They still
fetch a pretty good price though.
George
Does anyone remember those laptop sparc-alike boxes
they made for a
while? Anyone know of anyplace that's selling those now that they're
obselete?
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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5:28 p.m.
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Are you referring to the Tadpole sparc clones? I
don't know if they
still are produced but there are plenty of them on ebay. They still
fetch a pretty good price though.
George
IIRC, they're now only making UltraSparc laptops (gotta be sweet), and I
think they've got a PA-RISC laptop. Unfortunatly they only made one model
AlphaBook and it's discontinued.
If anyone wants to trade a AlphaBook for a SparcBook, I've got a SparcBook
3GS. A laptop running VMS would be cool :^)
Zane
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5:31 p.m.
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Didn't they also make some PowerPC portables for IBM as well (I
know that they were supposed to, but I can't recall if they ever did).
George
Are you
referring to the Tadpole sparc clones? I don't know if they
still are produced but there are plenty of them on ebay. They still
fetch a pretty good price though.
George
IIRC, they're now only making UltraSparc laptops (gotta be sweet), and
I think they've got a PA-RISC laptop. Unfortunatly they only made one
model AlphaBook and it's discontinued.
If anyone wants to trade a AlphaBook for a SparcBook, I've got a
SparcBook 3GS. A laptop running VMS would be cool :^)
Zane
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11:36 p.m.
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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, George Currie wrote:
Didn't they also make some PowerPC portables for
IBM as well (I
know that they were supposed to, but I can't recall if they ever did).
Maybe they did, and maybe they didn't. IBM, however, made some of their
own. ThinkPad Power Series 820, 850, and 860. They are sweet laptops; lots
of groovy features, especially for their time (ca 1995). They are no
longer manufactured or supported. IBM barely remember they existed, and OS
support is spotty.
I have a prototype 850.
ok
r.
5:07 p.m.
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Does anyone remember those laptop sparc-alike boxes
they made for a while?
Anyone know of anyplace that's selling those now that they're obselete?
You mean something like my Tadpole Sparcbook 3GS :^) The Sparcbook 3's at
least aren't obsolete, a little long in the tooth maybe... They're still
fairly in demand, I got lucky and got mine fairly cheap.
Go to http://www.sunhelp.org and look for the Sparcbook FAQ. That should
give you a good idea of what's out there, and what they can do.
Zane
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5:26 p.m.
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
Does anyone remember those laptop sparc-alike boxes
they made for a while?
Tadpole Sparcbooks are the most popular ones. I use one every day...nice
machine.
Anyone know of anyplace that's selling those now
that they're obselete?
Sometimes you can find them on eBay, though they're not cheap.
Interesting, what makes you think they're obsolete?
-Dave McGuire
5:33 p.m.
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
Mostly because I remember they came out while I still lived in California,
almost 4 years ago now. I was just wondering if they could be had for bargain
prices, as the idea of a Unix laptop appeals to me, although not as much as a
BeOS laptop. Quite a bit off topic, I know, but I figured folk here would
know the answer.
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Jim Strickland
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Does anyone remember those laptop sparc-alike
boxes they made for a while?
Tadpole Sparcbooks are the most popular ones. I use one every day...nice
machine.
Anyone know of anyplace that's selling those
now that they're obselete?
Sometimes you can find them on eBay, though they're not cheap.
Interesting, what makes you think they're obsolete?
-Dave McGuire
5:42 p.m.
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On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
Ack...I'm a bit jaded I guess; the whole technical staff of my company (about
18 people) *all* use Tadpole 3GX or 3XP systems. I see & use them every day,
so I had forgotten all about the very existence of their older systems. I have
a Sparc2-alike Tadpole here that's very weird...the boot monitor isn't very
sun-like as I recall. A very strange machine.
Keep your eyes open for a Sparcbook3 system...you'll *love* it!
-Dave McGuire
Interesting,
what makes you think they're obsolete?
Mostly because I remember they came out while I still lived in California,
almost 4 years ago now. I was just wondering if they could be had for bargain
prices, as the idea of a Unix laptop appeals to me, although not as much as a
BeOS laptop. Quite a bit off topic, I know, but I figured folk here would
know the answer.
6:06 p.m.
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Mostly because I remember they came out while I still
lived in California,
almost 4 years ago now. I was just wondering if they could be had for bargain
prices, as the idea of a Unix laptop appeals to me, although not as much as a
BeOS laptop. Quite a bit off topic, I know, but I figured folk here would
know the answer.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
They came out quite a while before that. I remember drooling over one in a
magazine while I was riding MetroRail around in Washington DC, that would
have been '92 or '93.
Zane
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