got a sparcstation but no keyboard or mouse? tired of having to reprogram your idprom over and over?

usb3sun lets you connect usb keyboards and mice to your sun workstation, and it can reprogram your idprom with just a few keystrokes

rev B1 now available → https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun

OTD 1989: #SunMicrosystems announces the SPARCstation 1. Datasheet: https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparc%2Fsparcstation1%2Epdf#zoom=page-fit

Purple feet!

Someone near Frankfurt is giving away two Sun StorEDGE units. I wish I had a house so I could adopt these.

https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/sun-microsystems-storedge-l700e-l180/3041337943-225-4501

**Sun Microsystems’s Storage History – The Early Years**

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Sun_Microsystems%E2%80%99s_Storage_History_%E2%80%93_The_Early_Years
#SunMicrosystems

Общеобразовательное о том, какие процессоры могут быть по архитектуре. С экскурсом в историю развития.
«Как Intel создал ARM, ARM похоронил MIPS, на очереди X86?» На нескольких видео-хостингах:

• https://rutube.ru/video/bd42ae858d9fec2ea3bdc5ff70ddf28f/

• https://dzen.ru/video/watch/67e30b33a68eb647c136e44f

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKQJ9W5dmo

Как «яблоко» #Apple и «жёлудь» #Acorn объединившись создали ARM — Advanced RISC Machines в 1990-м, хотя в оригинале это было Acorn RISC Machine с 1985-м года.

Первый релиз на ARM6 состоялся в 1992-м году и был это КПК — Apple Newton PDA на базе процессора ARM610.

Для получения именно десктопного процессора #PowerPC эта же самая Apple с 1991 года была в альянсе с #IBM и #Motorola работавшими над #RISC процессором архитектуры Power. В результате работы альянса над этой архитектурой стало семейство PowerPC процессоров.

В это время у Sun Microsystems было семейство SPARC — тоже на базе RISC, ставшее процессорами и для рабочих станций и для серверов. Первые системы #SunMicrosystems на процессорах #SPARC начали поставляться в 1987 году и на 1989 год были дешевле Intel 80386 процессора.

Кстати, именно серверные RISC-процессоры уже стали 64-х разрядными в реальных машинах, когда #x86 только планировали выбираться из 32-х разрядности.

#hardware #CPU #процессоры #intel #ARM #MIPS #x86 #CISC @russian_mastodon @ru @Russia

Stumbling stock market raises specter of Dot-Com era reckoning, ET Telecom https://www.byteseu.com/857882/ #AI #amazon #Apple #ArtificialIntelligence #DotComBubble #Meta #microsoft #StockMarket #SunMicrosystems

https://www.europesays.com/1938081/ Stumbling stock market raises specter of Dot-Com era reckoning, ET Telecom #AI #Amazon #Apple #ArtificialIntelligence #DotComBubble #Meta #Microsoft #StockMarket #SunMicrosystems

OTD 1982: #SunMicrosystems is incorporated.

Preliminary business plan (as VLSI Systems, Inc.): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AISiLW3rBJQhArztoQ5p5K12Z4Bj2hru/view?usp=sharing

Saw an interesting variety of old gadgets & equipment in a local thrift store (Savers, #RedwoodCity/#RedwoodCityCA) last night.
#8mmfilm #sunmicro #sunmicrosystems #radioshack #thriftstore #retrocomputing

Serial number 1 of the JavaStation 1 is up on EBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/195650243344

You can run NetBSD on it: https://fatsquirrel.org/oldfartsalmanac/netbsd-on-a-javastation/

-8 outside and +18 indoor

Is there any shared computing like #boinc for Sparc or MacPPC (Apple PowerPC)?

That you have had any experience with?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing

My #sunmicrosystems #sunfire and #powermacs generate a lot of heat. so lets give them something todo

TOPS FlashBox drivers

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/tops-flashbox-drivers

Driver disk of the TOPS FlashBox high-speed LocalTalk adapter by Sun Microsystems.

#macgarden #drivershardwaresupport #1988 #sunmicrosystems

Thinking about selling my Sun TAAC-1 VLIW board. Introduced in 1987, it was a coprocessor for VME Sun-3 systems, and the world's first "Board Level General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit", according to some.

Approximately 400 were made.

Photogenic little beastie, among other things.

If you're interested, please email: dave@cca.org

OTD 1994, #SunMicrosystems announces the #SunATM 155Mbps ATM SBus card. The kind of ATM you only put money into. My baby, Mea culpa. 1/2

I've been trying to figure out why the GUI for Solaris 10 wasn't working on my Ultra 5. It installed just fine but only boots to a text login. I noticed when trying to reinstall that it prints a message saying GUI mode setup is only available with 768MB of RAM. I have a suspicion that the same restriction must apply to the normal GUI as well.

#retrocomputing
#SunMicrosystems
#SunUltra5
#Solaris

Randomly thinking about this the other day, still think it's crazy that #Java was this huge important #ProgrammingLanguage when I was first learning to program back in the 2000s, then #SunMicrosystems was bought by #Oracle in the 2010s when I was teaching for the certifications, and now in the 2020s it's become this depreciated legacy language. The success of the less-portable and less-learned copycat .Net and staying power of the older #Python shows there was clearly a market for Java to continue, but the large #corporation was so much more interested in filing lawsuits against people who were doing things with the language than actually developing it further with modern features, they actually managed to push it into obscurity.

And we can't forget that this was a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR LOSS. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS had been spent to build up infrastructure to support the widespread use of this language across the industry, so when they dropped all support, and all of that became obsolete for no other reason.

Found these while cleaning up the lab. I saved them from a pile of electronics waste at my old job years ago. Both work fine, even on a Windows system. Interestingly, the left one is a three-button ball mouse with a USB connector. No fancy scroll wheels or optical sensors. #SunMicrosystems

I've been troubleshooting an install issue with Solaris 10 (on an Ultra 5). It kept giving me "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" which seems to be bad memory, processor, or motherboard.

Nope. The system had 256MB of RAM. Doubled that to 512MB with the spare RAM I ordered for troubleshooting and it installs just fine. System requirements say 256MB is the minimum, but it doesn't seem that way.

Now, what do I do with all this spare hardware....

#retrocomputing
#SunMicrosystems
#Solaris