🎢 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

SCS's Sun SPARCstation IPX

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.) A colleague from one of my previous jobs recently wrote about ...

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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

NVRAM von der #sparcstation 20 repariert. Mir ist da ein kleiner Fehler passiert. Aber nichts, was sich nicht fixen lΓ€sst.
Aber am Ende funktioniert es.
#sun #ss20 #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retro
Erstmal Solaris 9 auf die #sparcstation 5 installieren. Der NEC MultiSync EA221WM ist echt Gold wert. Kann 15kHz und das Signal des 13w3 Framebuffers. #retrocomputing #retro #sun #sparc
NVRAM von meiner zweiten #sparcstation 5 gefixt. Weiß nicht, warum man die Dinger nicht gleich mit einem CR2032 Sockel aus gestattet hat. #sun #retrocomputing #retro

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

The #sparcstation lives! It's been nearly a decade. Not sure why I can't get a console in my regular user account, but that's the least of my worries. Is there a way to use Sun OpenLook without a mouse? #sun4m #retrocomputing #retrounix
Flashback: Sun SPARCstation 20 running OpenBSD as mail server

En the early 2000s, when I was in education, I had to complete a project by my own. As I somehow got a Sun SPARCstation 20, with a few GB of disk and - as I remember - 256 MB of RAM. The CPU was a SPARC 32bit. I decided

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