Sun/3-powered 737 flight sim

Michael Thompson michael.99.thompson at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 18:44:11 CDT 2020


I have also seen the SCSI terminator power fuse blow when the terminator is
hot plugged.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 7:26 PM Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net>
wrote:

> On Aug 17, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Michael Thompson via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Sun 3/E, including a SCSI/Ethernet board, that ran fine the last
> > time it was powered on. There is a collector in southern Germany who also
> > has a 3/E board set. I didn't see any contact information for the
> simulator
> > owners.
>
> The originator of the Reddit thread works on this simulator and is the
> point of contact.
>
> They're really interested in moving off the Sun 3/e rather than continuing
> to try to get spare parts etc. I've also suggested they check the
> capacitors and fuses, especially on the Ethernet/SCSI cards, since the
> originator claims multiple failures. The Ethernet fuse in particular is
> likely very easy to trip because people these days aren't used to AUI
> adapters which generally *can not* be hot-plugged without blowing a fuse.
>
>   -- Chris
>
>

-- 
Michael Thompson


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