Sun workstations

brj...@gmail.com

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Jul 23, 2023, 2:38:04 PM7/23/23

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I have two Sun Sparc workstations.

A Sparcstation 20 and an Ultra Enterprise 1.

I believe that both would run, but you would need to re-install the OS.

Free to a good home.

Let me know if anyone is interested

//Bill

yancy smith

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Jul 23, 2023, 3:19:16 PM7/23/23

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Bill Jacqmein

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Jul 24, 2023, 8:14:08 AM7/24/23

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Nice bit of history.

Saw an Ultra 40 for sale the other day and brought back memories.

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George Law

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Jul 24, 2023, 8:42:26 AM7/24/23

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I alway like to tinker with things like this.

several years ago I picked up a sun workstation from another UCLUGer - I am not sure I remember who it was but

they lived down off the 187 exit on I85 south.

I had fun with it for a while, set up TFTP on my old Power Mac G5 to get it to boot and did a net install. I think I handed it off

to another UCLUGer who came out and picked it up from my house.

Yancy eventually got the Power Mac G5.

I also had a silicon graphics purple toaster that I played with for a while but never had much luck really doing much with it.

I also linuxed my daughters old HP stream 7 tablet :) I'm a contributor on this thread from HP ...

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Tablets-and-Mobile-Devices-Ready-Only/Linux-on-the-HP-Stream-tablet/td-p/6675613

PITA hacking the installer USB to inject a 32 bit UEFI boot loader but managed to install Ubuntu 18.04 or something like that on it.

My current plaything is 3 HP Chromebox's that I picked up for $50 each off Amazon. I was hoping I could use them for a small openshift cluster

but bumping them up to 32 GB of RAM is going to be cost prohibitive - they only have a single SDIMM slot :( Anyway, I may try a Microshift install

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/deploy-microshift-laptop which has lower resource requirements than a full blown openshift cluster.

Some of this is going to depend on my job situation in the next few weeks as I may be moving away from openshift / ODF at work.

~George

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