[SunRescue] Odd/Old hardware (even a Sun tie-in!)

[Will Jennings]

I once owned all of the boards from, including the backplane, a Chromatics 
graphics workstation.. This was powered by a VME Sun-3 series CPU, a special 
OEM model, its only a 2U board. FWIW, my dad went to the unveiling of the 
original Sparc, I still have the brochure on the Sparc, the writing paper, 
the writing paper container, and the coffee mug... I used to have a blue Sun 
bag that came from that as well, which, for added coolness, had a digital 
simulation of the space station Freedom on the luggage tag (because my dad 
worked for a now-formerly major CAD company). Nifty stuff, if I do say so 
myself ;p Indeed, some of my earliest computer memories are of the sun logo 
bouncing around the screens of 386i's at his work, right when such beasts 
were brand-new and I was around 6 or so... But I still love Apollo's far 
more, and find it interesting that out of all the machines my dad has ever 
used, all the way from the CDC 3400 to x86's, Suns, etc., he still thinks 
Apollo's were the best. Anyway, does anyone have a type 3 mouse and 
keyboard? I have a 3/50 that I'd like to see if it works... No offense to 
Sun-lovers, but I've had horrible luck with Sun's, owning 4 that didn't 
work... umm a 4/690MP (this *really* pissed me off by failing to work!), an 
SLC, an ELC, and an Ultra 10... That's nearly as bad as my track record with 
macs... Also, will a standard mono monitor work with a 3/50?

Will J
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