[SunRescue] can I repost your mails?

[Paul Khoury]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:13:42 -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Amy [mailto:turtlex at feeding.frenzy.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 12:01 PM
>> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] can I repost your mails?
>> 
>> i dont know if this is a proper segueway, but here in austin we have a
>> goodwill computerworks (it only sells computers). recently 
>> they opened an
>> "as-is" room, which is basically a room full of non-pc stuff 
>> (their techs
>> arent trained to test *nix equipment). 
>> 
>> while i was there yesterday, i noticed they had a few drive holders, a
>> sparc classic x, three old graphics towers (pretty design) and lots of
>> monitors and even two slc's. plus, they had ten or so 
>> floptical mice pads,
>> some still in their original wrappings (and their 
>> accompanying mice). if
>> anyone would like us to pick this up for you and send it, 
>> we'd be happy
>> to.
>
>Oooh, graphics towers, huh?  SLOW, from what I hear, but it might be cool to
>have.  Do you know what they wanted for it?  Anybody know what I can run it
>with (OS, hardware)?  I've got SunOS 4.1.4_1U or something, although no
>media, but all of the original manuals.  Anybody know where I can get a copy
>of media for that so I can run it on my 4/330?

Yeah, they're supposed to be nice for their time, but really slow.
24 bit graphics, with 16MB of RAM, but considering you're running all the video signals through a cable,
from the SPARC to the graphics tower, you should expect some latency there.  And you need
a proprietary card on your SPARCstation to interface it to the graphics tower.

And support was dropped in Solaris 2.3 or 2.4?  Help me out here someone... =)