Patreon Vid: Latest Pickups September 2024
Added 2024-09-29 19:01:29 +0000 UTCTaking a look at stuff I've picked up recently on eBay and at VCF Midwest, as well as some channel donations.
I started archiving those Novell disks and it looks like they're training and testing materials!
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oh yeah we'll definitely be doing some net booting with it
clabretro
2024-10-04 01:04:31 +0000 UTCSPARCstation IPX! Slow as heck but fun. :-) Is this a good time to mention you can (gasp) netboot Solaris and have diskless workstations? Had a darned good time messing with that on my slow bedroom 10 megabit Ethernet back in the day. The (Beware: the IPX is sun4c so Solaris >8, particularly netbooting, is tricky.)
Mac Folklore Radio
2024-10-03 23:29:09 +0000 UTCWell... Fortunately the bottom metal plate is solid and has a bit of a lip, so even if it does leak it's very unlikely to damage the board.
Ethan Hawke
2024-10-02 03:25:54 +0000 UTCa very good idea, I recently picked up a Sun D1000, and a Sun 711, makes it a lot easier to move between machines as well!
Ethan Hawke
2024-10-02 03:24:34 +0000 UTCI'll be sure to check!
clabretro
2024-10-02 03:16:10 +0000 UTCthat makes sense, I think I'll try some adapters or just plug a scsi array into the back, it's got a scsi card on there in addition to the backplane
clabretro
2024-10-02 03:15:42 +0000 UTCYikes! Hopefully they aren't sitting above the motherboard
TrolleyMC
2024-10-02 02:52:31 +0000 UTCJust to clarify the SCSI thing, the connectors those sleds have is SCSI-3 (or even better), just in the 68pin variant. The one you said was SCSI-3, is SCA, basically just combining power and SCSI into one connector for convenience. While the 68 pin caddies are the same speed as SCA, 68 pin SCSI drives are very rare unfortunately.
Ethan Hawke
2024-10-02 02:49:37 +0000 UTCThe NVRAMs are fine, but the lunchbox style machines (IPC/IPX/LX etc) do have a tendency of the PSUs leaking, quite badly in some cases!
Ethan Hawke
2024-10-02 02:47:24 +0000 UTCI was using a Unifi Security Gateway like that as my main router until just recently. Guess I can use it for a retro network now? :D
Martin Paulsen
2024-09-30 15:05:05 +0000 UTCNetware 3.x is prior to Novell Directory Services (NDS). NDS didn't come out until Netware 4.x. Kind of like the difference between NT4 and Win2K.
Glen Dady
2024-09-30 10:52:42 +0000 UTCA purist at heart. Gota love it!!
John Fugedy
2024-09-30 00:51:31 +0000 UTCI suspect I'll try to put an era-appropriate version on there (haven't actually done the research to see which one that would be though). SunOS 4.x?
clabretro
2024-09-30 00:48:28 +0000 UTCWill you want to put Solaris 10 (ie. free) or an earlier version your SPARC classic? Have success with it on my e450, V440 and T5-2.
John Fugedy
2024-09-29 22:12:17 +0000 UTCI was hoping that'd be the case about leakage
clabretro
2024-09-29 20:55:09 +0000 UTCThanks again, I'll definitely get that stuff put to good use
clabretro
2024-09-29 20:54:49 +0000 UTCMan I'm a sucker for Sun and Cisco gear. You shouldn't have any leakage issues with the IPX as the clock battery should be all contained in the NVRAM IC.
TrolleyMC
2024-09-29 19:29:25 +0000 UTCGlad to see everything made it to you intact! I hope all that stuff is useful. It had just been collecting dust for several years with no hope of my ever using it again.
John Bailey
2024-09-29 19:20:55 +0000 UTC
