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cb88 wrote: You wouldn't happen to have any *extra* optical mouse mats would you? I have 2-3 optical mice but no pads which leaves me stuck with ball mice X.x.

Note that there are two different optical mouse pads, and which one your mouse uses depends on what mouse it is.

Somewhere there's a PS file that you can print out to get a working optical mouse pad.

cb88 wrote: You wouldn't happen to have any *extra* optical mouse mats would you? I have 2-3 optical mice but no pads which leaves me stuck with ball mice X.x.

Not really, I'm afraid - with the extras, I just about have a pad for each of the mice I have (and some of them are already worn/scratched), sorry.

SAQ wrote: Note that there are two different optical mouse pads, and which one your mouse uses depends on what mouse it is.

True. IIRC, the blueish ones are for the Type 5 mice and the blackish ones for the Type 4. Or was it the other way round? I keep mixing them up... Used to be the typical practical joke, btw, to swap those when a new guy started at work...

SAQ wrote: Somewhere there's a PS file that you can print out to get a working optical mouse pad.

I've been experimenting with those and I've even messed with the PS to get a finer/more even pitch. So far, I have been unable to get those to work with either Type 4 or Type 5 mice. I was wondering whether it would be worthwhile trying to print that on a transparent, then put some aluminium foil underneath in order to increase reflection but never got round to it.

cb88, I can certainly send you the PS files if you like if you want to experiment with them.

I would try printing it directly on a reflective media, head over to your favorite arts & crafts store and see if they have anything suitable. (this stuff in a laser printer might make for quite a show but be sure to try that over at a friend's house)

We had this sticker stuff at a place I used to work that did work in a laser printer. It had a sort of brushed aluminum finish on it, we used it to make nameplates.

cb88 wrote: You wouldn't happen to have any *extra* optical mouse mats would you? I have 2-3 optical mice but no pads which leaves me stuck with ball mice X.x.

CB88, if you don't mind waiting 2-4 months, I'm working into an open-source mouse/keyboard adapter for SUNs. I'd do that easily if I hadn't just moved and everything is yet boxed

Yeah I knew there were 2 differnet types of pads already ... I found a .ps file at one time but I think it was for only one model ? So sure an upload would be appreciated.

@Tabalabs Cool no rush :--) dude sounds like a useful project at least considering the lack of keyboards and mice for suns.

Legal nao tenha pressa cara, parece um projeto muito util vendo a faulta de teclado e mouse compativel com sun hardware.

Morei no Brazil quase 5 anos em MG

I know a place in Brazil (Belanova, you can find the address at my site, in the article about SGI keyboards: http://tabalabs.com.br ). that has the keyboard/mouse set for R$ 10 (!!!) but you have to talk to Yanke to get it in the deposit, they don't have it on the shop.

About the adapter, this seems to be an useful project for people outside US/UK/Europe, where everything computer is easy to buy. I hope to expand it someday for USB input. At least optical mice are still easy to be found in the USB version.

Nice to know someone else speaks portuguese here. BTW it would be nice to know who are in Brazil, and maybe set a meeting somewhere.

Voce morou em um dos melhores lugares do Brasil, la as mulheres sao lindas
(you lived in one of the best places in Brazil, there the woman are beautiful)

Don't know if this fits in here, but since it has SPARC inside I think it does.

Just got a Fujitsu Primepower 250 (quite difficult to find where I live)

Specs:

1*1,1 GHz SPARC64 V CPU
2*72 GB HDD
2 GB memory
some sorta gfx

This one is beautiful but despite its small form factor even a little bit noisier than my F280R

Sun Fire V100
USIIi 550, 3GB, 40GB IDE 7.2K, CD-R

Sun Fire V120
USIIi 650, 1.5GB, 36GB 15K SCSI, DVD-R

Sun Fire V210
USIIIi 1.34GHZ x 2 SMP, 2GB, 36GB 15K SCSI + 72GB 10K SCSI

Sun Blade 1500 "Red"
USIIIi 1.06GHZ, 1GB, 80GB IDE + 120GB IDE, DVD-R, XVR-100

Solaris 10 U7 and U9

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SUN SPARCstation 2, selectively with SunOS 4.1.3 or Solaris 2.4 and SPARCompiler C 2.0.1

HI there!

We with my pal own commonly tons of sparcs.
O.T.: where to get and how to use small non-sgi bbcode-style machine symbolic graphics in comments and signatures? (Want sun, mac68k, macppc symbols)

I think they were created by a user here. Since this is originally an SGI forum those were most of the icons that were made, I think that the MicroVAX and NeXT Cube were by special request.

Sun Ultra 5. Used to have an Ultra 10 too, but it was dead when I got it, so eventually after trying on and off for years to get it working, I scrapped it and threw the rest out.

I have a Classic (Lunchbox) & IPC... both in the loft but both fire up.

We have:
sparcstation lunchbox "lx", sparcstation 4, sparcstation 5, sparcstartion 20, sparcserver 5, ultra 1, ultra 5, ultra 30, ultra 450, ultra enterprise 3500, ultra enterprise 4500, blade 100, blade 150, blade 1600+2 double-height x86 blades, storedge a1000, storedge d1000, fire v240, fire 280R, sunpci 400MHz, 13W3 sun CRTs, tons os parts, cards, disks, video cable converters, type4-type5+type6 keyboards+mice and mousepads, installer kits, whatever.

Just a Sun Ultra-3 laptop, which works great, even though it will cook testicles into meatballs if you use it on your lap.

The Solbourne S3000 probably qualifies, but it's sick and won't boot.

I have 2 SPARCstation 5s, one running the RISC port of NextStep 3.3 on a 110 Mhz MicroSparc and the other is running LuBu OpenMagic on top of Solaris 7 on a 170 MHz TurboSparc. The 110 Mhz box used to be a Kodak photo kiosk which I turned back to a regular workstation. It has the "Kodak Digital Processor" logo on the front of it. Also have a few Sunblade 1500 workstations (UltraSPARC 3i processors) with an assortment of graphic cards.On the server side I'm running a couple of SUN T2000 servers, one headless and the other running with an XVR-200 graphics card. They both have the T1 8 core processor and they are both running Solaris 10. The oldest SUN I have is a SUN IPX in a SUN IPC case. But I hardly ever have the time to play with any of them much anymore.

JohnK wrote: On the server side I'm running a couple of SUN T2000 servers, one headless and the other running with an XVR-200 graphics card. They both have the T1 8 core processor and they are both running Solaris 10.

These servers show up super cheap on eBay. I have this crazy idea of making one fit in a normal ATX case. It would involve a lot of metal work and faking all the fan signals. Are there any cheap PC video cards that will run under Solaris these days?

These servers show up super cheap on eBay. I have this crazy idea of making one fit in a normal ATX case. It would involve a lot of metal work and faking all the fan signals. Are there any cheap PC video cards that will run under Solaris these days?

I don't know if you were asking about Solaris Intel or Solaris SPARC.

The only graphic options that I know of for the SUN T2000 are the XVR-200 and the XVR-300. The XVR-200 is a 1 lane PCI-e and the XVR-300 is an 8 lane PCI-e. The 300's go for about $200 and more so they are definitely not cheap. They use the ATI FireMV graphics engine and have 128 MB of video RAM and can drive two monitors. The 200's go for less since they are just 1 lane and 32 MB of RAM but can still be high. Luckily, one of mine came with a 200. I couldn't see paying the premium price for a 300.

SUN boxes need SUN cards in order to function with the OpenBoot firmware so standard PC cards won't work unless your going to install Solaris 10 on an Intel platform. If your going to run other SUN hardware like one of the more recent SunBlade machines (1500 or 2500 Red or Silver) then you can find cheaper cards on e**y like the XVR-100 or XVR-600 or even a PGX64. You can get these for $20.00 - $40.00 or so.

If your going the Intel route, I would check which video cards are supported on the Intel hardware compatibility list. What server board were you looking to use in an ATX case? That should be interesting.

JohnK wrote:
I don't know if you were asking about Solaris Intel or Solaris SPARC.

The only graphic options that I know of for the SUN T2000 are the XVR-200 and the XVR-300. The XVR-200 is a 1 lane PCI-e and the XVR-300 is an 8 lane PCI-e. The 300's go for about $200 and more so they are definitely not cheap. They use the ATI FireMV graphics engine and have 128 MB of video RAM and can drive two monitors. The 200's go for less since they are just 1 lane and 32 MB of RAM but can still be high. Luckily, one of mine came with a 200. I couldn't see paying the premium price for a 300.

SUN boxes need SUN cards in order to function with the OpenBoot firmware so standard PC cards won't work unless your going to install Solaris 10 on an Intel platform. If your going to run other SUN hardware like one of the more recent SunBlade machines (1500 or 2500 Red or Silver) then you can find cheaper cards on e**y like the XVR-100 or XVR-600 or even a PGX64. You can get these for $20.00 - $40.00 or so.

If your going the Intel route, I would check which video cards are supported on the Intel hardware compatibility list. What server board were you looking to use in an ATX case? That should be interesting.

Should have been more specific, the T1000 or T2000 based servers.

I ran a Sunfire V245 for a while in my basement but couldn't justify the noise or power draw (300 watts). Eventually I gave it away. But anyhow I got a good look at the insides and power supplies. Other than physically getting the motherboard inside the case I believe its doable. Now this is all just a crazy idea of mine and nothing is definite.

Is the T2000 faster than the Blade 2500? It would be pretty sweet to own the world's fastest unofficial SPARC desktop