[Sunhelp] Sparc question

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Ihlenfeld [mailto:info at digital-concepts.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:27 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] Sparc question
> 
> 
> I have been running with intel solaris for a while.
> I just bought my first sparc. I got a sparc 20 with quad 
> hypersparc 150's and 2
> 9g drives.
> Its a sweet toy.

You suck.  :)  Make sure that you keep that thing is a COLD, frost free
refridgerator or something similar, it will run REALLY REALLY hot.  I got to
take a look at the local CS university's dual Hypers recently, and they were
just about cooking...
BTW, how much ram?

> 
> Anyway, I was curious what some of the ports in the back 
> were, specifically....
> They are labeled.....
> //
> <->

The // is a parallel (notice how the lines are parallel) port, for printer
type things.  I actually found another device that has the same pinout on
it, it's a Textronics Phaser 300X.  I've got a dongle that goes from that to
36-pin centronics, but I have no idea how I could attach it to a printer...
The other one is AAUI ethernet.  Basically like the AUI ethernet on
other/older SPARCs, with a higher density connector.  I imagine that they
don't get used very often, since the SS20 has an RJ45 connector.  

> 
> What are those for.
> 
> Also, is there a way to hook a pc printer to a 
> sparc..parallel printer?

Uhm, maybe?  Like I said, no idea how.
	Greg