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Patreon Vid: Latest Pickups September 2024
🕑 Added 2024-09-29 19:01:29 +0000 UTCTaking a look at stuff I've picked up recently on eBay and at VCF Midwest, as well as some channel donations.
I started archiving those Novell disks and it looks like they're training and testing materials!
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clabretro
oh yeah we'll definitely be doing some net booting with it
Mac Folklore Radio
SPARCstation IPX! Slow as heck but fun. :-) Is this a good time to mention you can (gasp) netboot Solaris and have diskless workstations? Had a darned good time messing with that on my slow bedroom 10 megabit Ethernet back in the day. The (Beware: the IPX is sun4c so Solaris >8, particularly netbooting, is tricky.)
Ethan Hawke
Well... Fortunately the bottom metal plate is solid and has a bit of a lip, so even if it does leak it's very unlikely to damage the board.
Ethan Hawke
a very good idea, I recently picked up a Sun D1000, and a Sun 711, makes it a lot easier to move between machines as well!
clabretro
I'll be sure to check!
clabretro
that makes sense, I think I'll try some adapters or just plug a scsi array into the back, it's got a scsi card on there in addition to the backplane
TrolleyMC
Yikes! Hopefully they aren't sitting above the motherboard
Ethan Hawke
Just to clarify the SCSI thing, the connectors those sleds have is SCSI-3 (or even better), just in the 68pin variant. The one you said was SCSI-3, is SCA, basically just combining power and SCSI into one connector for convenience. While the 68 pin caddies are the same speed as SCA, 68 pin SCSI drives are very rare unfortunately.
Ethan Hawke
The NVRAMs are fine, but the lunchbox style machines (IPC/IPX/LX etc) do have a tendency of the PSUs leaking, quite badly in some cases!
Martin Paulsen
I was using a Unifi Security Gateway like that as my main router until just recently. Guess I can use it for a retro network now? :D
Glen Dady
Netware 3.x is prior to Novell Directory Services (NDS). NDS didn't come out until Netware 4.x. Kind of like the difference between NT4 and Win2K.
John Fugedy
A purist at heart. Gota love it!!
clabretro
I suspect I'll try to put an era-appropriate version on there (haven't actually done the research to see which one that would be though). SunOS 4.x?
John Fugedy
Will you want to put Solaris 10 (ie. free) or an earlier version your SPARC classic? Have success with it on my e450, V440 and T5-2.
clabretro
I was hoping that'd be the case about leakage
clabretro
Thanks again, I'll definitely get that stuff put to good use
TrolleyMC
Man I'm a sucker for Sun and Cisco gear. You shouldn't have any leakage issues with the IPX as the clock battery should be all contained in the NVRAM IC.
John Bailey
Glad to see everything made it to you intact! I hope all that stuff is useful. It had just been collecting dust for several years with no hope of my ever using it again.
