[SunRescue] SparcStation Voyager Serial Port Strangeness

[Dave McGuire]

On May 20, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Ooh.  That is such as sweet machine.  I've always wanted one.  The color

  It's a good machine but it does have some significant limitations...no
ethernet, for example.  It does have a PCI slot, though...I put a FDDI
card in mine.  Hits from my local web cache come to the machine at
100MBPS. :)

> classics also look fun (and it seems that they can be PPC upgraded in an
> extremely chop and mod sorta way).  They of course aren't as cool though.

  PPC upgrade for a color classic?  I hadn't heard about that.  That
sounds neat. :)

> I believe there are some PC type systems that are all in one with flat
> panel display and have decent resolutions.  I know I've seen students
> carrying them into and out of the residential networking building, but I
> can't remeber the brand ... might have been Compaq.  But then, you give up
> having a nice risc platform.

  Very true, some have pretty impressive displays, but I don't use PCs...

      -Dave McGuire