Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems was my first exposure to Unix workstations. Back in 2017, I posted a wanted ad on craigslist and somebody actually responded! I went to their damp basement and picked up 4 rusty workstations, 4 keyboards, and 3 mice, and 1 monitor for $100. 2 keyboards and 1 mouse were not salvageable.

Unfortunately, the monitor was broken. At that time, CRTs were still being given away for free, so I just got rid of it. Today, I would attempt to fix it.

I'm still looking for a pre-SPARC Sun system, and maybe an Ultra 2 with dual processors. I find the S-BUS systems more interesting than the later PCI systems.

Featured Systems:

Systems which I have more to say about

SPARCStation IPX

Ultra 1

SPARCStation 5

Ultra 10

All Systems:

Will update eventually with all specs

Model	Processor	RAM	Graphics	Disk	OS	Notes
SPARCStation IPX	SPARC 40 MHz	40 MB	CG6	2.1 GB	SunOS 4.1.4	Case in rough shape
SPARCStation 10	SuperSPARC 40 MHz	48 MB	CG6	2.1 GB	SunOS 4.?
SPARCStation 5	MicroSPARC-II 85 MHz	32 MB	Internal CG6	4.2 GB	Solaris 2.6
Ultra 1	UltraSPARC 143 MHz	256 MB	??	36 GB 15k	Solaris 8/OpenBSD 6.9
Ultra 1	UltraSPARC 167 MHz	192 MB	??	36 GB 15k	Solaris 8
Ultra 10	UltraSPARC IIi 333 MHz	256 MB	Creator 3D	80 GB IDE	Solaris 8	SunPCI
SunBlade 150	UltraSPARC IIe 650 MHz	256 MB	??	40 GB IDE	Solaris 9
SunFire v100	UltraSPARC IIe 650 MHz	512 MB	None	80 GB IDE	Solaris 10
SunFire v240	2x UltraSPARC IIIi 1.5 GHz	4 GB	None	2x 73 GB SCSI	Solaris 10

Links:

Sun Patches
Sun Packages
NVRAM FAQ
More Sun Patches
More Solaris Packages
SunPCI Packages

Enabling NFSv2 on Ubuntu 22.04

I had issues mounting an NFS export on a Ubuntu 22.04 server on some older OSes like HP-UX and Tru64. I had to enable NFSv2 to allow these systems to mount the NFS export.

In /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server , change RPCNFSDOPTS to include version 2, like this: