[rescue] Tadpole 3GX + extras for sale

[Kevin Bowling]

I recall people putting SCSI to IDE interposers in PowerPC ThinkPads.
I imagine they aren't in great supply these days however.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Justin Haynes <justin at justinhaynes.com>
wrote:
> I don't know, but I do have all of the media for the 3GX
>
> I prefer to run OpenBSD on mine as it is one of the few (only? in my
> estimation and research) current operating systems still being maintained
> on this architecture.  It runs quite well, and if you hard code one of the
> drivers for 32bpp X will run just fine at that color density.  It's just
> that the userland utilities don't exist to change it dynamically.
>
> Now if I can just solve the SCSI to IDE problem I can have a completely
> silent Tadpole with a SDD IDE dirve in it. :-)
>
> -Justin
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, the last message I sent was ridiculous.
>>
>> The second part was a very misguided attempt to fish for commercial
>> abandonware recommendations, but it was too poorly worded to even
>> comprehend. Blame it on being up 24+ hours for finals.
>>
>> On that note though, what is the legal status of Tadpole-compatible
Solaris
>> media? I wouldn't mind being able to fresh-install Solaris 2.6.
>>
>> - Ian
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I remember my dad having one when I was a kid, and I've been looking to
>> > get into mid-90s Sparc gear.
>> >
>> > I have another 3GX, but it's kinda shitty and I haven't used it much
yet.
>> > This is the first one I've seen on ebay in a while, so this was kind of
>> an
>> > impulse buy. I want to be able to at least keep one running between
them.
>> >
>> > Anyway,
>> >
>> > Truth be told, I have very little Solaris / sun4 experience, and I've
>> > dealt mainly with Irix over the years.
>> >
>> > The appeal of a Sparc laptop was just too much, but now that I've got
>> one,
>> > what are some must-haves?
>> >
>> > I know about the Sun freeware site, and I'm gonna go there to get a
build
>> > environment set up, but is there any essential, neat software
>> specifically
>> > for this era of system I should hunt down as opposed to just compiling a
>> > bunch of psuedo-modern stuff on it?
>> >
>> > -- Ian
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jay York <jay_york at verizon.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Congrats.  I paid over a grand for mine.  That was a little while ago.
>> >> Before that, at work, I think we paid almost $15K for one, new.
>> >>
>> >> -Jay
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 19:06 -0800, Ian Finder wrote:
>> >> > Well, I bought the damn thing.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is $202 too much for a damn sparcbook?
>> >> >
>> >> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150709639417
>> >> >
>> >> > If Caleb is reading this, I should have the money I owe him as well
:)
>> >> >
>> >> > -- Ian
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>> >    ian.finder at gmail.com
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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>>   Ian Finder
>>   (206) 395-MIPS
>>   ian.finder at gmail.com
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