From: Rico Pajarola <rp@servium.ch>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] More oldies but goodies available if anyone wants them
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:42:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACwAiQn_oO33txusmQuRvP5iwovV4TKbpzZ0DGzhMNw-=P2b5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202001232348.00NNmUmc3853455@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:49 PM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
> Kevin Bowling writes:
> >
> > What are the mods? I have a stack of 10s and 20s but will take it for
> safe
> > keeping if nobody else will.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:01 PM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Kind of scary what's in my basement. For those of you building UNIX
> > > workstations in the early days, I have a big fat notebook full of
> > > Weitek floating point chip specs, many of which are marked as
> preliminary.
> > > Also a set of CORBA specs. Again, low-hanging fruit that's getting
> > > recycled unless anyone has a use for them.
> > >
> > > In the not completely sure that I want to part with them yet for some
> > > strange reason, I have a set of SunOS manuals.
> > >
> > > Also, if anyone collects old hardware I have a SparcStation 20 with a
> > > slightly modified SunOS sitting around and an Ultra 60 Solaris box.
> > >
> > > Jon
>
> The Sparc 20 includes the double-buffered graphics board. Thanks to an
> unnamed employee, I got the code to do a kernel mod so that I can run
> SunView on the front buffer and X on the rear buffer and switch between
> the two by running the mouse off of the side of the screen.
>
that sounds really cool, is there any way you could extract that mod from
the machine?
(I don't really need another Sparc 20, but the mod interests me).
>
> I probably have installation media around for both of these systems.
> Which means that I also have a QIC-150 drive to go with 'em. And a
> stack of QIC-150 and QIC-50 tapes that I've been wanting to get rid
> of but haven't managed to procure a good bulk eraser yet. Also may
> have Sun DDS-2, DDS-3, and DDS-4 DAT drives; will have to look. I
> also have one of the Archive Python DAT drives with the special SGI
> firmware that lets the DDS layer be turned off so that you can read
> and write audio DATs; that's currently loaned out and I'd need to
> check the status of it.
>
> Jon
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-23 19:01 Jon Steinhart
2020-01-23 23:01 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-23 23:48 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-24 8:42 ` Rico Pajarola [this message]
2020-01-23 23:08 ` Gregg Levine
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