Sun Microsystems (10)

SPARCStation 5

Sun Microsystems Home This is another pizza box workstation. This one has 32MB of RAM and a 60-ish MHz MicroSPARC Processor. Unfortunately, the memory in this system is proprietary and relatively rare. The ebay price for it is too much for me. This system is…

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Ultra 1

Sun Microsystems Home I have two Sun Ultra 1s. Both of these systems came out of a basement and have a decent amount of rust on the chassis. Unfortunately, one of the systems never worked correctly. It would display MMU error while running self tests.

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SPARCStation 10

Sun Microsystems Home This is a pizza box form factor workstation. My example is pretty low spec with 48MB of memory, 40MHz CPU, and 2.1 GB hard disk. The NVRAM in this system was replaced with a NOS part. I don't use this computer much.

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SPARCStation IPX

Sun Microsystems Home I really enjoy the lunchbox form factor of the IPX. I purchased this SPARCStation IPX on ebay as untested, but it did say it powered on. My system came with a dummy load installed where the hard disk would be, so I'm…

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Sun Microsystems Computers

SPARCStation IPX SPARCStation 10 SPARCStation 5 Ultra 1 Ultra 10 Sun Blade 150 Sun Fire v100 Sun Fire v240 General Sun Info and Links Sun Microsystems was my first exposure to Unix workstations. I posted a wanted ad on craigslist and someone responded. I went…

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