How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?
5 days ago
- #Sun-Microsystems
- #vintage-computing
- #SPARC
- Author rescued a collection of vintage SPARC-based workstations from potential landfill.
- Collection includes Sun Fire V100, Sun Netra T1, SPARCstation 1, SPARCstation 2, and others.
- Sun Fire V100 (2002) has a 500MHz UltraSPARC-IIe, 1024 MiB RAM, but failed to boot from a Debian CD.
- Sun Netra T1 (1999) features a 440MHz UltraSPARC-IIi, 1024 MiB RAM, and detailed POST output.
- SPARCstation 1 had power supply issues, while SPARCstation 2 units showed signs of life but had problematic hard drives.
- Some machines successfully booted Solaris 7 from an external BlueSCSI device.
- Author plans to explore remaining machines (SS10, SS5s, SS20s) in future posts.