Sun3 valuations?

[Grant Taylor]

On 01/22/2018 11:24 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Before that, if you were lucky enough to be at Stanford, MIT, or CMU, 
> you could use the Dover and Altos that were part of Xerox's University 
> Grant Program. Copies of well-known papers from the early 80s are very 
> distinctive because they were printed on them.

What made the Dover and Altos special in this context?

> Eventually, the Dover was networked to other computers. Stanford had a 
> rather big 3mbit research Ethernet made with SUN board gateways.

Intriguing.  This is the 2nd time I've heard about 3 Mbps Ethernet.  The 
first was in the series of videos that Curious Mark has shared on 
YouTube about the restoration of multiple Altos.

> Not that any of this has much to do with Sun-3, other that it was possible 
> to plug a SUN 3mbit ethernet board into one with a Multibus adapter. I 
> had packets coming out of a Sun-3 a VERY long time ago and still have 
> a bunch of the 3mbit Multibus boards.

I wonder if Curious Mark and co would be interested in possibly 
acquiring one of the 3 Mbps boards.  (Of course that would necessitate a 
Sun to put it in.)  -  I think they hacked something together, so the 
need may not be that great.



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