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ehowton ([personal profile] ehowton) wrote2014-07-31 12:00 am
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SPARCstation 20


Walked into a local Mac repair shop and general all around x86 junk store looking for a console DB25-to-USB adapter, but got to talking shop. And between the stacks of old Dell workstations, classic Macintosh and yes, even an Apple IIe, we dug out an old SPARCstation-20. It was surprisingly clean on the inside and the proprietor - unfamiliar but interested - wanted to teach himself Solaris, so we got started right away!

I drove home and brought back a matched pair of 36GB 10k Sun drives (to replace the 2.1GB Barracuda), and a new 40x SCSI Sun DVD-ROM. We stayed up until 2100 (and it was brain-wracking trying to remember simple commands like format to write a sun label to the hard drives) but finally got the install running. It has been something like 10 years since I had to install Solaris 8!

Made me wish I'd kept at least my SPARCstation-5.


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[identity profile] michelle1963.livejournal.com 2014-07-31 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
How awesome is that! And here people tease you about the ancient parts you have lying around. :p

[identity profile] celtmanx.livejournal.com 2014-08-01 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
He may be ancient but I'm sure his parts are still good!!!

[identity profile] michelle1963.livejournal.com 2014-08-03 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Bwahahaha!

Nice,

[identity profile] anisity.livejournal.com 2014-08-03 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds familiar

Re: Nice,

[identity profile] ehowton.livejournal.com 2014-08-03 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
IKR! That was my first thought as well - all this has happened before and all this will happen again.
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