HackadayReviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/reviving-a-cursed-sun-sparcstation-ipx/
Reviving a Cursed Sun SPARCstation IPX https://hackaday.com/2026/03/21/reviving-a-cursed-sun-sparcstation-ipx/
#Retrocomputing #Solaris #Sparc #Sparcstation #Sun #SunOS
#Retrocomputing #Solaris #Sparc #Sparcstation #Sun #SunOS
IggiAfter 3 years it was time to power-on one my beauties my #sun #color #sparcstation #voyager 😍 Running #next #openstep 4.2. this beauty has 80MB RAM and the AC/DC converter has been fixed and recapped by my esteemed #amiga friend @ClaudeSchwarz one of the masterminds behind #pistorm for AMIGA. 🙏🏻
EloshaCompiling old games on my #sparcstation . Mirror Magic II from 1994 already works, even with audio! I remembered the plain old Linux sound interface is compatible to #Solaris‘. This game originally was ported from the Amiga and still is super enjoyable. I was able to obtain the 1.0 source code from a very early Linux pre-distro code archive.
The original author still enhances it continuously by adding more play modes:
https://www.artsoft.org/mirrormagic/
GripNews🌗 修復 Sun SPARCstation IPX 第一部分：電源供應器與 NVRAM
➤ 懷舊 UNIX 工作站的重生：老舊電源供應器的維修挑戰
✤ https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram
本文探討瞭如何修復一臺經典的 Sun SPARCstation IPX 工作站。作者首先回顧了 90 年代初期 UNIX 工作站在性能和功能上如何超越當時的個人電腦，並介紹了 SPARCstation IPX 的硬體規格及其在當時的高昂售價與特定應用。接著，文章詳述了該機器的主要問題——電源供應器故障，其肇因於老舊電解電容器的失效與洩漏，這在 IPX 和 IPC 型號中屬常見現象。為了讓機器恢復運作，作者逐步說明瞭如何更換電源供應器內的所有電解電容器，並列出所使用的具體零件型號與規格。儘管 NVRAM 的修復細節在本文中尚未提及，但此篇為 S
#電子設備維修 #復古電腦 #UNIX 工作站 #電源供應器 #電容器更換 #SPARCstation IPX
➤ 懷舊 UNIX 工作站的重生：老舊電源供應器的維修挑戰
✤ https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram
本文探討瞭如何修復一臺經典的 Sun SPARCstation IPX 工作站。作者首先回顧了 90 年代初期 UNIX 工作站在性能和功能上如何超越當時的個人電腦，並介紹了 SPARCstation IPX 的硬體規格及其在當時的高昂售價與特定應用。接著，文章詳述了該機器的主要問題——電源供應器故障，其肇因於老舊電解電容器的失效與洩漏，這在 IPX 和 IPC 型號中屬常見現象。為了讓機器恢復運作，作者逐步說明瞭如何更換電源供應器內的所有電解電容器，並列出所使用的具體零件型號與規格。儘管 NVRAM 的修復細節在本文中尚未提及，但此篇為 S
#電子設備維修 #復古電腦 #UNIX 工作站 #電源供應器 #電容器更換 #SPARCstation IPX
Leaded Solder🎶 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
Blake PattersonSomeone'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
cosOk, 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
cosFalling 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
Scott P ✅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?