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Sun Ultra 60 strip-down and clean

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Sun Ultra 60 strip-down and clean

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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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Re: Sun Ultra 60 strip-down and clean

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

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stephen_usher wrote: 19 Mar 2022 17:43 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.
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I think that it is. All the Dallas Semiconductor clock chips are assembled in the same sort of manner, right from the 48MT02 up.
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Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
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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.
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alexh wrote: 20 Mar 2022 11:48 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.
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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.
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