I will have to get back with you on the audio. It is on offline backup
media and I need to find it.
Here is a link to some photos of the exhibit -
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7qC8UbEYCeCf9CBo7
The RDI Britelite (laptop) is a SPARCstation IPX system board in a
laptop chassis. It was in the Day 1 exhibit, but not the Day 2 exhibit
because the power adapter died on the morning of the second day.
One of the photos is an opened-up SPARCstation LX, which is very similar
on the inside to your IPC.
My exhibit next year will be on early 90s SPARC clones.
alan
On 12/2/18 1:43 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
Alan... would love a copy of the audio for our archives here.
Would like to see pix of your display too sounds neat!
Any other files text or otherwise welcome also to this address or drop us a dropbox link
The Sun workstations I never knew too much about as at the time did not seems like old history nor did we use any so playing catchup!
Thanks in advance...
Ed#
In a message dated 12/2/2018 12:44:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
There is only room for drives in the top half of the chassis. The PSU
and an assembly that holds the drives fills the top half. A 3.5"
half-height drive fits in one side of the assembly and a 3.5" floppy
drive fits in the other. The PSU cables go from the rear to the front of
that side of the chassis, below the FDD (when the chassis is closed).
I did an exhibit on Sun lunchbox systems, including the IPC (4/40), for
PNW VCF earlier this year. I looked for press kits, posters, etc. to use
in the exhibit, but could only find text files. I know people who worked
at Sun on the development of those early SPARCstations and none of them
had any of that kind of material.
I had an audio cassette "Introducing the IPC" for Sun sales. I donated
it to CHM this year (but I ripped the audio before I sent it to them).
alan
On 12/2/18 10:13 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
Thanks for the info to get it open! when back at the office shall
do that.. there may be drives in 2 places - on board and the off board
one. Always interesting to explore something one has only read about!
Along the same line of UNIX stuff we have a COBALT 1U Pretty blue
sever and a COBALT CUBE. I do remember lusting after one of these 1U
COBALT servers when they were current didn't have anything in the budget
back then though for one. I have been told SUN eventually ended up
owning COBALT.
As will all that we have we are looking for any ad slicks press
kits posters, wild artwork for the Sun $/40, and the 2 COBALT
machines..
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC www.smecc.org
In a message dated 12/1/2018 8:15:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
ape...@snowmoose.com writes:
Yes. It is next to floppy in the upper half of the chassis. There is a 50-pin
(IDC connectors) ribbon cable that goes down to system board at the bottom of
the lower half of the chassis. The chassis splits in the vertical middle in a,
if looking at the chassis, fairly obvious place. Because of the cables that run
from the top to bottom, it effectively hinges at the front of the chassis.
There a couple buttons on the side to release and sometimes a security cable
bit to remove (phillips screw).
On 12/1/18 7:08 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
Hi Alan - The hard drive is same size cabinet.... with I guess a SCSSI
cable. I will have to look at it further... wonder if starting it
out on a variac would help the capacitors like I do with the old radio
sets here in the museum ed#
In a message dated 12/1/2018 8:04:03 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
ape...@snowmoose.com writes:
Well, as I said, in my experience, the NVRAMs that you can buy new from Mouser
work good enough. And the mod to the original battery isn't that hard to make.
In my experience with IPCs, the bigger problem is the power supplies. If the PS
on the IPC that you have now doesn't need to be re'capped now, it will need it
soon. After that will likely be the HDD that needs work. Almost all of my HDDs
that originally shipped with lunchbox systems up to the 424 meg (ST1480N) have
died. The price for working 50-pin SCSI HDDs are at a point that SD2SCSI parts
make more sense (unless you want to exhibit them as they originally ran).
alan
On 12/1/18 6:55 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
BUMMER
It may become a static display.....
Ed#
In a message dated 12/1/2018 7:53:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
A 4/40 is a SPARCstation IPC. It used a M48T02 NVRAM for the IDPROM.
Yes, one with the dreaded battery.
alan
On 12/1/18 5:04 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
we were given this and a hard dribe a floor standimg decwriter..... does this
use NV ram with dreaded battery? thanks,ed
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