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"Charles T. Smith" <cts.private@yahoo.com> writes:

>Can anyone point me to a directory of ancient sun hardware (with pictures)?

My SunShack picture galleries have some an array of pics of the older
hardware (loosely grouped at the moment). http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2
is the main URL.

>I'm looking for a sparc that I can readily take on an airplane.
>It doesn't need to be powerful, but it needs to be able to run
>Solaris 9 or 10.

There are some companies that make Sparc-based notebook and laptop systems.
Tadpole used to make them (but I think they got swallowed by a company
making x86 systems), and there is BlueSky in Europe who make portable Sparc
servers as well as notebooks/laptops.

>I'm thinking that the pizza-box sparcs are old enough to be cheap, but I
>don't know which ones will run Solaris 9 or 10, and which ones won't. 

The later Sun-4m systems will run Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9). That means the
Sparcstation 4, 5, 10 and 20. I think Sun dropped support for the Sparc
Classic (LC) and LX after Solaris 8 (aka SunOS 5.8). Solaris 10 (aka SunOS
5.10) dropped all support for the pre-Ultrasparc systems.

>I bought a Blade 1000 for 225 Euro and it's great. But it's too big to
>take with me.

This workstation is an SB1000 and yes they're very big and heavy but are
excellent platforms.

>The pizza-box workstation can be diskless - I can run Solaris 10 on my pc
>and boot it from there.  I just need to be able to recompile my program if
>the customer changes his specifications.  I'd run it using my PC as a
>monitor ... that should be possible, I'm hope.

The size and weight of a pizza-box system would make it hard to carry on a
plane as carry-on luggage. The only really small Sparc systems are the Sparc
IPC, IPX, LC and LX, but they're all many years out of production and none
of them run Solaris 10.

Regards,

Craig.



>Any help is appreciated.
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