🎶 New blog post / it's one you can read / this Sun's Timekeeper is toast / so why don't we / cut a hole in it with a Dremel? 🎶

#sparc #sunos #sparcstation #retrocomputing #powertoolabuse

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/12/30/sparcstation-1-timekeeper-battery-fix-dremel.html

Someone's old Sun SPARCstation IPX fan page I ran across today, randomly.

I love old pages like this.

https://williambader.com/museum/sunipx/sunipx.html

#SUN #SPARC #SPARCstation #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #oldwebsites #derelictpages #workstations #Solaris #SunOS

Ok, here's the blog post!

If you've wanted to party like it's 1994 and experience life on planet #Unix _before_ Solaris, why not try a bit of #RetroComputing and try #SunOS 4 on an emulated #SPARCstation 5? https://apintandaparma.club/cos/falling-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-nostalgia-episode-1-sunos-4

Falling down a rabbit hole of nostalgia, episode 1 - SunOS 4

(or: running SunOS 4 on an emulated SPARCstation in 2025 with QEMU 10.1.) [...]

https://apintandaparma.club/cos/falling-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-nostalgia-episode-1-sunos-4

Trying to remember a unix gag from the early 90s. You could send a command to someone else's terminal and a little guy would appear on screen and slowly push the whole thing off your monitor. If you knew what was up, you could kill the process, but if not, you'd be locked out. I'd swear this was called "Ferkle", but I can't find anything mention of this anywhere. This was on a Sun SPARCstation, I believe.

Anyone?

#unix #sparcstation #computer