Looking for Sun computer hardware

**riffer** · 4th June 2009, 08:42

Hi all,

I'm after a 13W3 to VGA converter and a Sun 5 keyboard and mouse (or converter to USB or PS2).

Any of you IT guys got some of this stuff floating around in your back cupboards?

I'm doing a bit of mucking around with my sparcstation and I've lost some stuff along the way...

**bungbung** · 4th June 2009, 08:59

There was a sparcstation 1+ at the tip shop a couple of years ago, keyboard, case and monitor.

Sorry about that

**riffer** · 4th June 2009, 09:12

Doesn't help me now Ola...

**vifferman** · 4th June 2009, 09:42

I think we've still got a (working) Sparcstation at home, but I dunno what model or what bits it has. It came with a Sun keyboard and mouse. I'll ask #2Son today.

**pete376403** · 4th June 2009, 17:25

Can do the keyboard and mouse, might be able to find the video adapter. Will have alook tomorrow

**riffer** · 4th June 2009, 19:58

awesome!!!!!!!!!

**Forest** · 5th June 2009, 04:49

Originally Posted by riffer

Hi all,
I'm doing a bit of mucking around with my sparcstation and I've lost some stuff along the way...

Unless there's a really specific reason for using a sparcstation, you should put it aside and get an Ultrasparc based machine.

**riffer** · 5th June 2009, 11:36

Of course theres a specific reason.

There is a sparcstation 4 and sparcstation 5 sitting in my cave, and a copy of nextstep I'm dying to play with.

Ultrasparcs there are none.

Of course, I'd really prefer one of these but none have turned up on tardme yet.

**Forest** · 5th June 2009, 12:59

Originally Posted by riffer

Of course theres a specific reason.

There is a sparcstation 4 and sparcstation 5 sitting in my cave, and a copy of nextstep I'm dying to play with.

Ultrasparcs there are none.

You know that nextstep was released for x86 as well?

It runs fine on VMWare.

Of course, I'd really prefer one of these but none have turned up on tardme yet.

You won't see any on trademe. I doubt there are any left in NZ.

We still have some Origin 350 systems running DMF, but all of our Origin 2000 boxes went off to the metal recycler over three years ago.

**xwhatsit** · 5th June 2009, 15:49

Originally Posted by Forest

You know that nextstep was released for x86 as well?

It runs fine on VMWare.

Dude. It's not the same.

It's a motherfucking Sparc.

**pete376403** · 5th June 2009, 16:42

Got the keyboards and mice (2 of each) the video adapter and another box that looks like its a Sun adapter to plug in a PS2 mouse, keyboard and something else. Will drop it off on the way home.

**riffer** · 5th June 2009, 19:13

And so he did. Thanks heaps Pete! Installed a CD-ROM into it. But the bloody monitor won't sync to the Sun.

Now I have to try and prise my son's SGI monitor off him so I can boot it up.

And he's currently playing on it.

So I've got an NEC 5800/120Sc I also picked up that I'm thinking of making into another home server.

Now what OS... even more choice now.

**riffer** · 5th June 2009, 19:16

Originally Posted by Forest

We still have some Origin 350 systems running DMF, but all of our Origin 2000 boxes went off to the metal recycler over three years ago.

Origins?

Mate. That's a picture of an Onyx2 Monster Reality. I do believe there's a few of them over in Miramar.

**Forest** · 6th June 2009, 17:01

Originally Posted by riffer

Origins?

Mate. That's a picture of an Onyx2 Monster Reality. I do believe there's a few of them over in Miramar.

The Origin and Onyx systems are exactly the same thing.

Aside from the different coloured case, the only difference is that the Onyx has a graphics pipeline and raster generator.

I can guarantee that they won't still be running Onyx2 hardware in Miramar. They used to have an Onyx2 system running Inferno, but that got shut down over three years ago.