[SunRescue] Memory for the masses

Eric Ozrelic erico at bendcable.com
Sun Apr 30 04:05:16 CDT 2000


Bill, how much do you need? I have almost a gig of 4MB parity sun barcoded
30 pin simms (no joke)
I'd be willing to part with for trade, or money.

Regards,

Eric Ozrelic
aka ProjektSUN


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Sparc 1 struggles


> 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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> |   Bill Bradford    |   Austin, Texas   |
> +--------------------+-------------------+
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