Sun3 valuations?
Grant Taylor
cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Mon Jan 22 12:50:30 CST 2018
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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Grant. . . .
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