Re: Sparc memory, SBUS NICs, NVRAMS avail' from Portland, Oregon

From:
Ted Havelka <ted%cs.pdx.edu@localhost>
To:
NetBSD Sparc Users List <port-sparc%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Sent:
Tue, March 29, 2011 6:09:01 PM
Subject:
Sparc memory, SBUS NICs, NVRAMS avail' from Portland, Oregon

Hello port-sparc members,

In Portland, Oregon, I have a small but densely packed box of Sun Sparc parts, to give to any interested port-sparc/Sun system user. Prefer to donate to developers, if there are any interested remaining.

The box contains mostly 200-pin memory sticks, between 50 and 60 of them, many matched pairs. There are several SBUS cards, mostly NICs, including a 4-port NIC or two.

There are five or six NVRAMs, battery statae unknown, but most with their extraction-aiding carriers. There are also some small hardware pieces, a few SBUS slot covers.

Most all of these parts were salvaged from SS10 and SS20 machines.

I'm happy to ship these to a recipient, who will pay the cost of the shipping.

Will hold onto these a couple weeks, then must recycle them.

- Ted
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Ted,

If you aren't able to get rid off all the ram I could use whatever you have left I'm not a developer at least not yet ... I have an SS-2 SS-5 SS-10 and U1 ... the ss-5 and ss-10 currently run NetBSD and will do so more once I have a decent job.

I'm still hunting a sbus Fujitsu AG-10E graphics card which is similar in appearance to a ZX/leo graphics card. I actually only know of two people that even have one. The fellow that runs hyperstation.de and Macallan who works on the drivers for it. I have a ZX actually which is quite nice on solaris 7 but not on anything newer... since Sun/Oracle hasn't released docs on it. I haven't fiddled as much with building NetBSD yet but I have built a uClibc kernel and root image that boot in qemu.... which I plan to get running at least on the SS-5 I was actually rather supprised that the latest Linux kernels boot in qemu I thought the support had bitrotted much more.

I mostly just run them for fun... I bought them to try my had at kernel development (nice flat memory model and all...) but never have the time.

Chase