[SunRescue] Sun 4 330

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Harrison [mailto:harrison at timharrison.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:15 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Sun 4 330
> 
> Good morning (well, at least in my timezone).
> 
> I've recently purchased (yeah, sight-unseen, from an auction) a Sun
> 4/330 (at least, that's how it was typed -- I've never seen one
> before).  I've been hunting around for any docs for this, but 
> only come
> up with vague mentions of it.
> 
> Picture at:  http://www.networklevel.com/graphics/sun/sun4-330.jpg
> 
> Does anyone have any specific URLs, or text files, or MP3 spoken word
> files, or want to drop by Toronto and have tea, that explain the
> architecture, how all the parts fit together, and what all 
> the parts are
> and their specs? 

The Sun Hardware Reference has some information on it.
http://sun-ref.sunhelp.org/, among other places.  I've got a 4/330 sitting
next to my bed at home, but I'm not sure when/if I'll get around to running
something on it.  It's just way too big and power hungry for my tastes.  For
a brief summary, I think that it has a 25MHz processor of the type in the
SS1, although it may have the 40MHz variety that was in the SS2.  The
machine has 3 9U VME slots, and the main system board takes up a single 9U
VME slot.  Room for at least 2 full-height 5.25 inch drives, as well as a
front accessible bay for 2 half height drives.  The main system board should
take 8 1MB or 4MB SIMMs, depending on the PROM revision.  I can't think of
anything else fun off hand.  HTH,
	Grego