Unix (17)

Sun Fire v100

Sun Microsystems Home I don't have much to say about this machine, since its just a server with no frame-buffer. I had dreams of running Solaris and Apache on this machine and hosting this website on it, but I don't think its worth the effort…

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Sun Blade 150

Sun Microsystems Home The Sun Blade 150 marks the end of Sun's proprietary keyboard interface, and the 13W3 video connector. The keyboard on the Sun Blade workstations are USB, though they still have the standard Sun layout. I haven't tested a standard PC keyboard on…

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Ultra 10

Sun Microsystems Home The Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 were the first computers made by Sun that have a more PC like architecture. They both include the PCI bus, as well as IDE controllers for the hard disk and CDROM instead of SCSI. The Ultra…

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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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