[SunRescue] Sparc 1 struggles

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 10:36:41PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> Wow, that's a blast from the past!
> TI Floating Point Unit
> Sun-4/60
> 501-1454
>  1.The TI FPU was shipped from August to November 1989. 
>  2.Approximately 130 TI FRUs were shipped to customers. 
>  3.The TI FPU is replaced with a Weitek FPU upon failure. 
> Early (early!) Sparc 1's were not shipped with a FPU.  This card was a
> prerelease primarily to test code.  There were some incompatibilities with
> the "real" FPU but they were minor.
> I collect them.  I've got 3% of the production run so far.  :)

Cool.  What other obscure Sun stuff do you have or know about? 8-)

I *FINALLY* got one of the "Sible" PS/2 interface converter boxes 
ordered from Sun last night; availability finally changed from "4 weeks"
to "ships next day".

Bill (will trade left big toe for 4mb 30pin SIMMs so I can fire up 
      this 670...)

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