Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
by mikeruiz on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:32AM
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Love those terminals, was just thinking about looking for one!
I remember that the programmable MAC address feature occasionally came in handy when dealing with recalcitrant / braindead software ‘entitlement’ schemes vendors would occasionally require.
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
by Sidneys1 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:26PM
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I absolutely adore the terminal. It appears to have several VT-compatible modes, so should be very usable with modern Linux. Except I don't have the accompanying Wyse keyboard with the appropriate setup keys required to switch compatibility modes. Gotta trawl ebay for one one of these days...
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
by porphyra on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @01:22PM
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I was excited to read about cool hardware including a gorgeous amber Wyse CRT terminal, and disappointed that there were no pictures whatsoever on the blog post.
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
by Sidneys1 on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:18PM
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Yes, I got ahold of these just weeks before moving to a new state. Things have been a bit chaotic since then. Here's a video of it booting, though!
Re:End the line: The last Sun SPARC workstation [video]
by Sidneys1 on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:09PM
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Here, eat your heart out: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2024/10/04/booting-sun-s...
He was a bit of a curmudgeon, going on about how his business partner screwed him out of a "seven-digit payout" when his domain eventually got bought by some Japanese company. But a minivan rental and some elbow grease later I had a whole pile of hardware that he was all to happy to be done with: A Sun SPARCstation 20, a Sun ULTRA 1 Creator, an Axil Ultima 1 (a third-party Sun clone), an gorgeous amber Wyse CRT terminal, and a few other odds and ends.
I wrote a more detailed list on my blog [1], but so far all I've managed to do with them is get the drives out and cloned and the ULTRA 1 running (an involved process as the internal BIOS memory lost power long ago, wiping such transient properties as "what is my MAC address".
[1]: https://sidneys1.com/retrocomputing/2022/06/03/retro-roundup...