[rescue] Sparc Classic Resurrection for Newbie

Joshua Johnston rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Jan 5 03:17:37 CST 2002


Hi there, folks.
 
            A friend of mine presented me with a gift I'd been hoping to
land for several years, my very own Sparc Classic.  Now, the problem
comes in that I can't seem to figure out what my next step is to be
other than either ordering a keyboard from someone on eBay, or trying to
butcher together a serial connection with my PC so I can get into the
BIOS and try to find some way to install an OS that I can work with.
It's a salvage job from an MIT lab, it appears, and likely has some kind
of hacked up system that won't work outside the campus, so I'll need to
install a system clean. 
 
            I'm hoping people on this list might be able to toss me some
suggestions of resources online other than Sun's tech spec page which I
already found.  It seems rather tricky to find a Sparc Restoration sort
of page that has a list of things to do, which would be rather nice.
Here's what I have to work with.
 
Sparc Classic 4/15
24M of RAM
Unknown HD
Unknown FB
(Shows both FRU 5012200 and 5012264 on stickers on board)
Floppy Drive
 
No CD-ROM
No Keyboard
No Monitor
No Mouse
 
            Help?
 
- Josh



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