[rescue] Looking for Sparcstation 4 (TN)

[David Brownlee]

On 12 May 2014 22:21, Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us> wrote:

> " Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 20:01:00 +0100
> " From: David Brownlee <abs at absd.org>
> "
> " I was chatting to the "keeper of obscure graphics hardware drivers"
> " for NetBSD (such as cg14/sx/cg12/pnozz) and it turns out he doesn't
> " have a sparcstation4 with its 8bit tcx.
> "
> " I wondered if anyone on the list might have one they would be willing
> " to part with?
> "
> " Hes busy with other stuff right now but I think its safe to assume it
> " would be given a loving home and put to real use in its twilight years
> " (after all, how many people are serious about being able to run kde3
> " on an accelerated cg14 in a 32 bit sparc box? :)
>
> somewhere i have a ss4 system board in a bag, functional state
> unknown; i never used it.  it came out of a chassis i put a seu20
> into.  as pointed out, it's an aurora board; ss5 and ss20 chassis are
> the same.  most ss4s came with a lightweight ps but mine didn't.
>
> i'm in 01835.
>

That sounds about perfect!

Many thanks - will follow up offlist with details :)