The collected works of f10d4

Hi there, the irons: Sun Enterprise 4500+3500+3500 are for sale/trade. Specs.: 2x400MHz USII??? cpu modules, at least 8, each with at least 2GBs of ram. at least 3 I/O board modules and at least one special graphics slot+2*SBus board module. FC transceivers, disks, fc cables, odd, optical gigabit sbus lan card could be added for extra cost and needs further agreement. Tested with solaris8 and with solaris10. 1 from 3 clock boards has empty battery, forgets always the boot device, but this "fault" is at a replaceable part.

More info on these monsters:
http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh- ... E4500.html
http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh- ... E3500.html

We also have some other untested ultrasparc beasts for bartering, especially an Ultra 450. Further details will be available later.

Bartering is possible, we are looking for any sort of _smaller_ and _lighter_ non-x86 irons, especially sgi, pdp and mac, both m68k and powerpc. For x86, they are not allowed here but the exceptions are vintage portables, ibm pc, ibm xt, ibm ps1, ibm ps2.

If we can get rid of these giants, further smaller, more friendly sparcs will be available for trading.

Thank you for your attention (and questions, corrections, offers, whatever)!

Hi there!

AIX/ps2 can be virtualized. In VirtualPC, aaaand... in Bochs:
english summary: https://sites.google.com/site/rhdisk0/unix/aix/aixps2
hungarian original, png screenshots were converted to text: http://www.cs.elte.hu/~vuk/aixps2.html

I didn't mention in the above, but AIX/ps2 in Bochs can be connected to network via slip. Bochs has to be configured with an attached network socket to its serial port, that socket then to be connected to a qemu vm's serial port, which has a zipslack guest for example, and that should be the gateway to the internet. Done.

Will tell you more about limitations, showstoppers, and other related possibilities, if anyone is interested.

Hi there!

Subscribe. We have a PCI SunPCi (400MHz), interested in using it with solaris9 or newer, if it is possible, also host hardware compatibility list wanted! (e.g. sun ultra 5, ultra 450, blade 100, whatever.) Howtos, denials are welcome!

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)

It seems to be unclear, but not from now: with our parts, you can build a 4500 config with up to 14 CPUs and 14GBs of ram! And you still have at least 2-2 CPUs for each 3500 and some GBs of ram for them. So at least one machine can be pretty well max'ed out! Also have 4 FC disks for them: 1 good (9GB, with installed sol10 on it for a 3500), one unclear stated (?GBs), two predictably bads (36GBs). We are also interested in selling them separately, order is NOT arbitrary: the 4500 or the uglier 3500 come first, and the more beautiful 3500 comes last.

Where to downlo^Wbuy .iso images and which itanium hardware is supported? EDIT: only if it belongs to abandonware category, otherwise please ignore my wish

Hi there!

We have tons of vintage ibm x86 systems, and ps/1 and many ps/2-s, from powerpc side: an rs6k, a powerseries 850 (6070) and much more.

Hi there!

Does that version of vms require licence activation (technically, not legally )?

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IBM model 6070 (powerseries 850), rs6000 7011/250, not really ibm, but powerpc: 2 motorola powerstacks, and lots of apple g3+. And tons of ps2 and ps1 machines but they're x86 arch.

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.

Hi Knezzen!

Don't you look for your first ever Sun machine? Have some for trading. J

I can send a photo from the 4500 in private if anyone is interested!

Melkhior wrote: I'm sort of idly wondering how much it would cost to ship one of those to France...

Hi,

It depends on the delivery service that was chosen. There is a Hungarian summary of delivery services within EU somewhere, I'll look after for it. But feel free to spam me in private or here with urls containing corresponding content on sending huge amount of packages between EU countries.

Melkhior wrote: I only collect workstation-form factor Suns because shipping & handling are too much of a hassle for big iron (well, I have a 4/330GX but that's technically a workstation, they called it a SPARCstation 330GX ultimately ).

Sadly hear that

Melkhior wrote: Even the smaller 4500 is pretty heavy - Sun claims 68 kg (72 kg shipping), but I assume that's a base model w/o all the trimmings (extra CPU boards & IO boards & ...).

It is probably over 90kgs, because of the redundant PSUs included, and the CPU modules. It is heavier than a 3500 even if it is empty(!) So do not trust in shrubberry, compare this:
http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh- ... /spec.html
with this:
http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh- ... /spec.html

Attached san storage is not necessary, they can boot from scsi internal hdd, which fits into the place reserved for the tape unit.

necron2600 wrote: I have a SUN PCi iii card.. I assume that needs a SUN PCI 3.2.1 or newer drivers. Anyone know where to get a copy? Oracle doesnt seem to provide downloads anymore like SUN did, let alone sell/support them other than PDF documentation.

PM sent...

Can anybody help determining the cost of these suns? Don't know their price.

Beef_Ramen wrote: ...
Ultra 30 with windows PC card!
...

Do you mean sunPCi card?

Well, good news: we have installed and configured successfully our sunPCi 1 card (400MHz) in our ultra5. And our huge sun collection was extended by a sun sparcstation 10! <3

necron2600 wrote: If they are fully loaded (10+ CPUs and 10+GB).. I would imagine they could sell to a hobbyist for 200-400$ each.

done

necron2600 wrote: I have 8 or 9 too many e4500's leftovers from a hosting business I did years back.

YIKES!

Is it a possible valuable goal to run on these beasts a Solaris container/zone VPS farm? The resources seem to be satisfactory, except the cpu speeds

Merry Xmas to everyone!

Hi,

We have all'em. But they are not for sale. We trade only with our UE 4500+2x3500 (they are 64 bit ultrasparc beasts).

uunix wrote:

f10d4 wrote: Hi,

We have all'em. But they are not for sale. We trade only with our UE 4500+2x3500 (they are 64 bit ultrasparc beasts).

There's nothing like a productive helpful post..... and this was nothing like one!

I was wrong, we have at least two SS5s, one new is still untested, and maybe it will be for sale.

But we still prefer getting rid of UE 3500 ( and keeping both SS5s )

necron2600 wrote: As long as you are ok with ...
-Kevin

Thank you for such information! _o_

Barter offers are still valid! (Preferabily in EU)

kokoboi wrote: ...
Tadpole SPARCbook 1
Tadpole SPARCbook 3GX
...

Wow, tadpole stuff! That's pretty great!

As inspired by the topic in the SUN forum.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=9131

Let's list those apples!

... those damn distances

I wonder where to get a pci board, in such case, the sunpci sbc could be tried with them! Without that, the ultra5 and the ultra10 work fine together with the sbc! (And also got original solaris 8 kit again, which is necessary to sunpci)

I suggest moving all this here: viewforum.php?f=30

I can help anyone to virtualize aixps2, or install it into a vm - then clone disk image to physical harddisk for real iron!