[rescue] Sparc Classic Resurrection for Newbie

[Andrew Weiss]

I have keyboards and mice if you need them.

Andrew

On Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 04:17 AM, Joshua Johnston wrote:

> 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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