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[hike]

"But when you come across a 3/470, how can
you not rescue it from the garbage heap?b

The first step is to admit your addiction.
The second step is to seek help.

I can see why your wife doesnbt trust you.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Walter Belgers <walter+rescue at belgers.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just broke a promise to my wife (and myself). I promised to collect Suns
> no
> bigger than then SparcCenter 1000. But when you come across a 3/470, how
> can
> you not rescue it from the garbage heap?
>
> It has a 501 1550 CPU board with a 501 1532 cg6 framebuffer (quite special
> I
> guess - it also comes with keyboard, mouse and colour monitor). There s a
> 501
> 1217 SCSI controller, a 501 1102 RAM board (8MB) and a board marked
> DATARAM .
> Is this a memory caching board? It has a bunch of LEDs on it.
>
> The system supposedly does not boot up (haven t tried yet). The boards have
> been pulled out and put back again, not necessarily in the same slot. Is
> there
> something I need to know about slot locations for these board? I vaguely
> remember some quirks with other Suns in this respect.
>
> Cheers,
> Walter.
> --
> Walter Belgers
> walter at belge.rs -=- http://belge.rs/
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