[SunRescue] any 3B2 users out there?

[Les]

Between the noise of the fans, drive(s), power hum
the 500 was not exactly a great desktop.
I might still have a couple of pieces/parts for the 3B2
stuff but I'd have to dig deep & look long. It would be
pretty well buried. I'm sure I still had a couple of the
quad serial/single parallel port boards.
They (AT&T) had their own network stuff to link PCs
to the 3Bx "file server"
I never hooked one up to a "regular" network.
I do still have a "UNIX PC" or 3B1 which runs.

Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] any 3B2 users out there?


> [ On Tuesday, March 20, 2001 at 12:21:53 (+0200), Geoffrey S. Mendelson
wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] any 3B2 users out there?
> >
> > That does jog my memory. The 400 had a faster processor, supported more
> > memory and had more "slots" than a 300. The 400 motherboard could be put
> > into a 300 case, and that was what a 310 was.
>
> Only later 310's and 400's had upgraded 14MHz processors (or ones where
> the owner had done so with an upgrade kit, such as myself).  400's
> orginally had 10MHz clocks and very early 300's (and maybe 310's had
> 8.2MHz clocks).
>
> http://cua6.csuohio.edu/~bob/3b2faq.html
>
> :-)
>
> Someday I really should fire up my 500 and see if I can get it on the
> net.....  It would give me even more of an excuse to run a DMD again
> too!  (but where would I put it with three 20" monitors already on my
> desk now!?!?!?)
>
> Once I dreamt of porting NetBSD to it, though now I think I'd like to
> just have a copy of the latest System V Release 4 (preferrably with
> full source :-) fall into my hands somehow....  I love old hardware, but
> I hate old software!  :-)
>
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