onionJun 13
Just realised I now have an extra sparc compatible pci graphics card. And some quite nicely specced headlese sparc servers. Wonder if they could be combined to make a workstation? #ultrasparc #sunmicrosystems #solaris
Retro Markus πŸ‡©πŸ‡°πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺJun 1

Final challenge for the weekend ... trying to resurrect the good old Blade 2000. Sans CPU/RAM/HD right now.

#retrocomputing #sun #sparc #ultrasparc #blade

Freya (it/its)π’€­π’ˆΉπ’ π’Š©May 31
Is there anyone in #Australia or #NZ, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a #SPARC #Solaris (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz #UltraSPARC IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile. If you can't help, then please boost? @SolarisDiaspora
Freya (it/its)π’€­π’ˆΉπ’ π’Š©May 30
Is there anyone in #Australia or #NZ, or who would be willing to ship to NZ, who could donate a #SPARC #Solaris (sun4u/sun4v) machine to the building effort for FractalKit? We're running up against some limits and some really bad time sinks, doing all of this on a 650MHz #UltraSPARC IIe is.... really really painful. We know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a machine they could donate to this we would be immensely thankful. This porting effort is really important to us but it's not going to be actually useful if a single library takes a day to compile.
Show threadbg nerilexMar 29

Die #Ultra5 hat eine #UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz CPU und 128 MB RAM.

Das NVRAM wurde gefixed, aber derzeit Produziert sie keine Ausgabe auf dem VGA Port. Evtl. hat sind das Alterserscheinugen des Netzteils.

joanyJan 24

#netbsd #sun #ultrasparc #sparc #ultra5

Had to pull my IDE<>SATA and IDE CDROM
Got the debug promt if the CDROM was attached

Looks like I am ready for #SunDay

joanyJan 22
#sun people
What should i run on my #Ultra5
#sparc #ultrasparc
Show threadKevin Karhan Nov 26, 2024
@DigA_UniLeipzig alles ist besser als #MicrosoftExchange: Selbst nen alter #UltraSPARC-T2 mit #Solaris sowie #Postfix & #Courierist besser, weils nativ mit allen Clients.wie @thunderbird funktioniert.
Show threaddorotaCOct 14, 2024

@yakkoj #OpenFirmware was the most pleasant boot environment I ever used. I could figure out how to boot things, which is not exactly true today with an EFI shell.
And that was on real hardware, too.

#ultrasparc

onionOct 6, 2024
Finally ran "poweroff" on my trusty old #ultrasparc #server πŸ₯°
It did good for almost 20 years with #linux. Probably would have run for a while longer but the IDE system disk started to fail. All the important stuff was a on separate raid that got migrated to a boring x86 VM.
But now I can experiment with it a bit more as it's not in any production use anymore.
Had to wait for October. It just felt wrong to do it under #suntember
#sunmicrosystems #selfhosting