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@vinishor great post, one of my last projects for #Sparc is to prepare a minimal Solaris setup for them. I was booting them over the network (“boot net” from the ok prompt) and using Jumpstart to automatically install Solaris on them.
#OpenFirmware is an intersection system on its own, you can build your own from the source from https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware
Thanks @simondassow for boosting this!
Alright, I give up. Dear Fediverse #retrocomputing folks, I've been looking for a SPARCstation IPX or IPC for quite some time; anyone around who'd be willing to sell one? Preferably within Europe (I've found one offer on eBay, but it would be from the US and I don't have any confidence in overseas shipping right now.) RT for reach, please 🤞
P.S. I'd be even happier about a SPARCstation IPC or SLC, but those are literal unobtanium 😭
Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.
Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.
Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.
[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches
#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc
Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.
Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.
Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.
[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches
#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc
Is it #suntember again?
Just got a fresh Tribblix installation on SPARCv9 (Sun Netra X1).
Thanks @ptribble@illumos.cafe for keeping this up.
~ $ uname -a
SunOS tribblix 5.11 tribblix-m32 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 illumos
#illumos #tribblix #sparc #sunmicrosystems
Is it #suntember again?
Just got a fresh Tribblix installation on SPARCv9 (Sun Netra X1).
Thanks @ptribble@illumos.cafe for keeping this up.
~ $ uname -a
SunOS tribblix 5.11 tribblix-m32 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 illumos
#illumos #tribblix #sparc #sunmicrosystems
Now, this rabbit hole involved looking up the vendor, Graphics Computer Systems, who are no longer around and ending up at the pages of a fellow named Dr Carlo Kopp of Monash University. He has a trove of stuff about the history of Australian involvement in the SPARC ecosystem that I had no idea about! The system I have is dated mid-1995 so they must have been around for a few years, are there any Aussies out there who might have any knowledge or additional insight about them? Were there many of these systems sold? Heck, does anyone outside of Australia know about them? I've not done much with it, apart from checking for signs of life, I was told one drive was broken and probably needs its NVRAM battery replaced.
Here's some photos that I took not long after bringing it home (please don't mind the mess and... the Linux ;))
Here's the page if anyone's interested: https://users.monash.edu/~ckopp/hardware.html
Little addition to the #introduction: in terms of #sparc hardware I acquired an Ultra 5 a couple decades back from a fellow forum user of a Silicon Graphics-based forum I used to frequent (which was interesting as I didn't think would be any in my neck of the woods in outer suburban Sydney, Australia) but it got scrapped during a move. I've since bought an Ultra 10 that I hoped to make use of, it's a 440 MHz model with 256 MB and currently has no drives. Apart from drives I'll try to get the full 1 GB and probably needs a new battery. But before this purchase, I was given another system...
Now, this rabbit hole involved looking up the vendor, Graphics Computer Systems, who are no longer around and ending up at the pages of a fellow named Dr Carlo Kopp of Monash University. He has a trove of stuff about the history of Australian involvement in the SPARC ecosystem that I had no idea about! The system I have is dated mid-1995 so they must have been around for a few years, are there any Aussies out there who might have any knowledge or additional insight about them? Were there many of these systems sold? Heck, does anyone outside of Australia know about them? I've not done much with it, apart from checking for signs of life, I was told one drive was broken and probably needs its NVRAM battery replaced.
Here's some photos that I took not long after bringing it home (please don't mind the mess and... the Linux ;))
Here's the page if anyone's interested: https://users.monash.edu/~ckopp/hardware.html
Little addition to the #introduction: in terms of #sparc hardware I acquired an Ultra 5 a couple decades back from a fellow forum user of a Silicon Graphics-based forum I used to frequent (which was interesting as I didn't think would be any in my neck of the woods in outer suburban Sydney, Australia) but it got scrapped during a move. I've since bought an Ultra 10 that I hoped to make use of, it's a 440 MHz model with 256 MB and currently has no drives. Apart from drives I'll try to get the full 1 GB and probably needs a new battery. But before this purchase, I was given another system...
Resurrecting a Sun SPARC station for day to day computing.
#oldcomputerchallenge #sparc #netbsd
https://retrobsd.ddns.net/nvdh7j.htm
Resurrecting a Sun SPARC station for day to day computing.
#oldcomputerchallenge #sparc #netbsd
https://retrobsd.ddns.net/nvdh7j.htm
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
