Sun Ultra 60 strip-down and clean

[Steve]

Allo all,

I got a 2x360Mhz Sun Ultra 60 machine recently. I stripped all the hardware down for a thorough clean. Really nice Unix workstation, I'm currently playing around with OpenBSD 7.0 on it (The latest OBSD is supported, how cool is that?!)

I upgraded: The SCSI CD-ROM to a DVD-ROM, added a Gigabit network card and a 3D graphics card (Both 3dlabs and a Radeon) USB/Firewire & Maxxed the RAM to 2GB.

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[stephen_usher]

You didn't fit a piggy-back CR2032 coin cell on the NVRAM then?

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[Steve]

You didn't fit a piggy-back CR2032 coin cell on the NVRAM then?

Is that the same model nvram? Yeah I was thinking of doing something for it before it dies. I'll give it a go.

[stephen_usher]

I think that it is. All the Dallas Semiconductor clock chips are assembled in the same sort of manner, right from the 48MT02 up.

[alexh]

Nice work. I've got lots of old sun ultra workstations from work. I thought they might become collectable but I was wrong. They've just become obscure. I need to find them all a new home.

[PhilC]

Nice work. I've got lots of old sun ultra workstations from work. I thought they might become collectable but I was wrong. They've just become obscure. I need to find them all a new home.

Share them on here, there are a few Sun enthusiasts amongst us.

[Steve]

Yeah I'm really happy to have one just as a great example of different micro architecture. Also super impressed with Openbsd, it's so easy to install I might start using it on my main computers instead of Linux. I like it's no nonsense approach.