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
>