[rescue] Sun 4/310

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on 6/17/02 12:37 AM, James Lockwood at james at foonly.com wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Torquil MacCorkle, III wrote:
> 
>> A guy around here has an untested Sun 4/310 and he says I can have it. I
>> can't seem to find any mention of it on the internet after 1995.  I found a
>> site with a few basic specs, nothing about the OSes it could run and stuff.
>> Can anyone tell me some more about this beast?
> 
> 4/300 mainboard in a x10 chassis (3 VME slots).
> 
> 25MHz sun4 architecture.  Early SPARC implementation, comparable in speed
> to the SparcStation 1+.  8 30-pin SIMM slots for 8MB or 32MB onboard, plus
> any memory expansion on other cards (up to 192MB per card).  Onboard sync
> SCSI-II at up to 5MB/s, 4 serial ports, AUI ethernet.  Onboard P4
> expansion connector for a framebuffer (keep your eyes peeled for a P4
> GX/cg6).
> 
> They'll run SunOS 4 up to the latest (4.1.4), Solaris up to 2.4 (SunOS
> 5.4) and, last I checked, Net/OpenBSD.  Linux support for the sun4 arch
> exists but is highly spotty.
> 
> Basically, old and relatively power hungry for the CPU power.  It's
> probably not the best thing to learn tooling around on Sun hardware as it
> doesn't have a modern OpenBoot PROM or the ability to run recent Solaris
> revs, but it's still useful.
> 
> -James

Any idea of the wattage on the power supply? If it isn't that bad I may use
it some, otherwise it may, sadly, become a bedside table(of course i'd leave
it intact so if I ever was able to afford to power it...)


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Thanks,
Torquil MacCorkle, III
Lexington, Virginia