1 Mar
2011
1 Mar
'11
8:13 p.m.
I was interested in playing with NeWS (a Postscript-based windowing
system from Sun, predating X) and acquired this stuff from a member of
this list. I never got around to doing anything with it. There are 3
SparcStations (2 IPCs and an IPX), a NeWSPrinter (laser printer which
relies on the host to do the Postscript rendering), the NeWS 2.1
Programmer's Guide, some CDs that can be used to reinstall the OS if
necessary, and a suitable external CD drive. Any reasonable offer
plus shipping costs will be accepted, since we need to move soon, and
I don't see the point anymore of hanging on to something I never found
the time to explore properly.
2 Mar
2 Mar
11:43 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
I was interested in playing with NeWS (a
Postscript-based windowing
system from Sun, predating X) and acquired this stuff from a member of
this list. ?I never got around to doing anything with it. ?There are 3
SparcStations (2 IPCs and an IPX), a NeWSPrinter (laser printer which
relies on the host to do the Postscript rendering), the NeWS 2.1
Programmer's Guide, some CDs that can be used to reinstall the OS if
necessary, and a suitable external CD drive. ?Any reasonable offer
plus shipping costs will be accepted, since we need to move soon, and
I don't see the point anymore of hanging on to something I never found
the time to explore properly.
BTW I'm in Phoenix, AZ. As you might expect the shipping weight will
be kindof high, but it all shipped in one large box when I got it. I
might break it up into a couple of boxes if shipping turns out cheaper
that way.
11:55 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was interested in playing with NeWS (a Postscript-based windowing
> system from Sun, predating X) and acquired this stuff from a member of
> this list. ?I never got around to doing anything with it. ?There are 3
> SparcStations (2 IPCs and an IPX), a NeWSPrinter (laser printer which
> relies on the host to do the Postscript rendering), the NeWS 2.1
> Programmer's Guide, some CDs that can be used to reinstall the OS if
> necessary, and a suitable external CD drive. ?Any reasonable offer
What OS is this? Has it been imaged and archived somewhere?
5:55 p.m.
sun cut it out somewhere between solaris 2.1 and 2.5 I think. The
latest does not support it.
I didn't follow sun much in the sparc world after 2.8, but somewhere
they started killing off support first for some sbus cards, then for the
entire architectures (in other words such as SS2 SS1, and so forth).
I was at sun in 1994-1995, which corresponds to 2.4 and 2.5 time and
they definitely were supporting them then, so an old copy of solaris
would be a starting point. I imagine the news cd's that Shawn has (is
he the original poster) should have that in their documentation. I
don't know if you could load and run it w/o license keys though, they
thought they had a tiger by the tail and made it a pain in the butt to
run even if you were inside sun.
but it was fast and cheap, and a very nice printer subsystem. I'd check
whether you have a supply of the toner cartridges or an idea how to get
toner into what you have though. they go through it quite quickly if
you use them because they can move so much data to paper.
Jim
On 3/2/2011 11:55 AM, Jason T wrote:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was interested in playing with NeWS (a Postscript-based windowing
> system from Sun, predating X) and acquired this stuff from a member of
> this list. I never got around to doing anything with it. There are 3
> SparcStations (2 IPCs and an IPX), a NeWSPrinter (laser printer which
> relies on the host to do the Postscript rendering), the NeWS 2.1
> Programmer's Guide, some CDs that can be used to reinstall the OS if
> necessary, and a suitable external CD drive. Any reasonable offer
What OS is
this? Has it been imaged and archived somewhere?
16 Mar
16 Mar
8:02 p.m.
Pics are now at http://ecloud.org/pics/NeWS/
Each computer weighs 11 pounds, the manual is 4 pounds, CD drive 6
pounds, and I think the printer was 40 pounds; and there are some
CD's, printer cable, power cable. So all together it should be less
than 90 pounds if it was in one box, but we can ship it in 2 boxes
since UPS charges more for heavy boxes anyway. I will include every
Sun-related CD I can find.
8:05 p.m.
On 3/16/11 11:02 PM, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
Pics are now at http://ecloud.org/pics/NeWS/
Each computer weighs 11 pounds, the manual is 4 pounds, CD drive 6
pounds, and I think the printer was 40 pounds; and there are some
CD's, printer cable, power cable. So all together it should be less
than 90 pounds if it was in one box, but we can ship it in 2 boxes
since UPS charges more for heavy boxes anyway. I will include every
Sun-related CD I can find.
I noticed a toner cartridge for that printer on eBay the other day,
so they're not impossible to find, FYI.
Great printers.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
9:17 p.m.
Keyboards and optical mice will be included too. (Bumps up the weight
a bit more though...)
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