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[ebay] Two sun 3/60 247's and external drive boxes

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pentium
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Wrote the following at Jan. 17, 2013, 10:51 p.m...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1989-Sun-3-Computer-System-Parts-2x-3-60-Model-247-X516A-516-EPX-2-/160954329630?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D142%26meid%3D4955793989336757351%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D1076%26rk%3D5%26sd%3D271140636260%26

He did a beautifiul job with the photos. The PSU shown looks REALLY sick.
Shipping is free though (states only).

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Wrote the following at Jan. 17, 2013, 11:51 p.m...
I thought you meant "sick" as in "awesome"!
I have a 3/60, mono only though. I've never actually seen a cgfour before (it looks like there are two different types in the auction, so people should take a look).

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Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2013, 2:58 a.m...
Interesting, I had a 3/60 w/ a P4 color framebuffer on my desk ~1990-91, but just one mono 3/60 in storage. These both appear to be CG4s (501-1210 and 501-1248), to Pentium's point - slightly different implementations, but functionally the same.

I'm really curious about the 4 pin Molex connectors on the one board, wondering what that was for... Nice to see the old 386i style shoebox on top of the pile.

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Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2013, 8:50 a.m...
smj wrote:
I'm really curious about the 4 pin Molex connectors on the one board, wondering what that was for...

This looks like an unfinished attempt at putting an internal SCSI disk on the unused part of the mobo. But apparently no header was soldered to the internal SCSI connector area.

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Lupin_the_3rd
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Wrote the following at Jan. 22, 2013, 12:55 p.m...
robespierre wrote:
I thought you meant "sick" as in "awesome"!

Lol, so did I. That is one unhealthy looking psu.

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Wrote the following at Jan. 22, 2013, 5:24 p.m...
miod wrote:
smj wrote:
I'm really curious about the 4 pin Molex connectors on the one board, wondering what that was for...

This looks like an unfinished attempt at putting an internal SCSI disk on the unused part of the mobo. But apparently no header was soldered to the internal SCSI connector area.


The SCSI header is actually under the video board and can't be seen in the picture. It is right behind the external SCSI connector. The un-soldered connector you see is another P4 that Sun never used afaik.

I am going to guess the blown supply is from the case with the hard drive mod. There is a reason Sun gave up on the idea even though they designed space for it on the board. They usually ended that way if the motherboard didn't die from heat first. It was a fairly unwise mod to do but, some people did anyway. Wasn't enough cooling or power for sticking a HD in there especially for the early 3.5" HD.