Sun Microsystems Model/Price Lists? (and Sun 1 research) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Sep 2014

On 9/16/14 08:10 AM Al Kossow wrote:

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 On 9/16/14 6:55 AM, Earl Baugh wrote:

  I'm missing some info from between this
initial list in 1982 and the 1988
 price list which has the Sun 3
 items. 
  Al, is this perhaps on your queue to scan?

 I have some glossies squirreled away that I need to dig out. 

Great.   Once I had a chance to help out with a restoration I pulled out my
notes, files and that
"folder for when I ever get access to a Sun 1".   That's what ultimately
lead to me getting the 2 Sun 1's
I now have.   I'm finding folks being very friendly and helpful in
gathering info... had folks open up a keyboard
and take pictures as well as in general going to machines and getting
pictures (museums, etc.).  I'm building up
some very sizable and definitive docs...   but the time from the intro of
the Sun 1 to the release of the Sun 2
is "light" in terms of info.

...
  I also let Bear know that I recovered all of the Sun
Unisoft V7
 distribution for the Sun 1 off
 of cartridge tape with the exception of one block in the /usr tarball
 inside of
 /usr/bin/lex. That will go up on bitsavers today. I've spent last couple
 of weeks
 reading my personal backlog of 1/4" carts from the 1980s trying to figure
 out how much 68K software from the various JAWs vendors that I still have.
 Trying
 to help the guy trying to get a Convergent Mightyframe going again has
 reminded me
 of how much of this stuff isn't generally available, if it still exists at
 all. No
 one seemed to care much about preserving software from 1980's Unix
 workstations.

Ah, thanks... (bear and I chat fairly often, since he and I work at the
same company.... )
Did you happen to find any install instructions with the Unisoft V7?

BTW, I have an original Sun 1 CPU board, so I'm excited to hear this...I
was wondering where I'd
get the early OS for that...  (and both of my Sun 1's boot...and got two
good HD units...
so have a place to "play").

Do you have any of the < 1.0 Sun OS images in queue?   I was hoping to have
some
options as well..

(BTW, I've also spoken to Skeezics about your recovery of PERQ SW... and
let me also
pass along another THANK YOU for your efforts... it's terrific... what you
recovered
nicely overlaps with the floppies I just sent him... and will be helpful
with the working PERQ 1
that I'm slowly shipping to him, piece at a time...)

FYI, I have a working Sun 1, Sun 2, Sun 3 and the original 4/110 now, so
any early software I've got
great places to demo it

Earl