Paul BuetowFun story! :-) The case of the 500-mile email ― Andreas Zwinkau https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/500mile_email.html via @wallabagapp
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
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
occultCleaning and restoring this SUN SPARCstation 330 from 1989. They built these things like vaults. It’s perfectly clean on the inside but hasn’t been powered on in 30 years.
#unix_surrealism #SUNmicrosystems #UNIX #SunOS #Solaris #SPARC
Doktor Overcomma 
Yes, the picture accompanying this post was just what I had handy, and was SunOS and not Solaris. To make up for it, here's the CDE Phone.
#SunOS #Solaris #CDE
#SunOS #Solaris #CDE
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
Alright, so I fell down the #SunOS 4 #emulation rabbit hole, piecing together a bunch of instructions and finding something that worked. See up and down from this post for more info.
I wonder if it's similarly possible to emulate an old DECstation running Ultrix?
#RetroComputing #Unix #90s https://aus.social/@cos/115597055734516482
cos (@cos@aus.social)
Attached: 1 image @nonspecialist ok, I lied about taking a break 'cause I wanted to try _one more thing_. success! so: - use the SS5 ROM to boot off cd and also to boot the miniroot (using the "setenv auto-boot? false" & "reset" I mentioned above) - swap back to OpenBIOS after that, and a "boot disk3:a" will boot the installed OS. - more here about installing Netscape, which I _will_ leave for later. if I can get that and Lucid Emacs going (I saw it on archive.org …) I'll be ecstatic! I've gotta go and find a real mouse for this, though.
zolaris