[SunRescue] SparcStation Voyager Serial Port Strangeness

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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. :)

Yeah.  For how cool the machine is, just adding ethernet would be enough
for me (don't have fddi yet).
 
> > 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. :)


Check out http://homepage2.nifty.com/Kan-chan/.  It is a really hack and
slash upgrade though.  Basic idea seems to be to swap in a LC mobo, then
do a PPC upgrade to that.

> > 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...

Then you are missing out on a lot of pain, heartache, and frustration ;). 


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Joshua Boyd