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IRS Refund Madness! Multiple Conquests!
- Thread starter Trash80toHP_Mini
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find! If yours still has the Daystar Card in it we'll know it was a post+upgrade-upgrade. If not, it may have been a pre+upgrade-upgrade . . .. . . or not . . . :scrambled:
The NeXt computer also used the 13W3 connector but it was proprietary. Sun also used this interface for a while. I have 2 20" Sun monitors with 13W3 connectors. The 13W3 "standard" really wasn't a standard at all. Different vendors were free to assign different signals to the pins so mixing and matching of monitors from different vendors frequently didn't work as the signals coming from the computer might not be on the pin that the monitor expects.
As promised, here's a shot of my new Pile-o-SPARCs™!
Notice the incredibly disgusting SPARCstation 10 on the bottom of the pile, as soon as I get the chance, I'll gut anything else that may be useful (and can be cleaned up sufficiently) at some point in the future.
When that one is finally gone to recycling, I think I'll call the remainder of this assembly a SPARCcube™!
If I had the room for it, this configuration would make a great end table/space heater! :
Here are a few of the goodies I pulled out while I was unloading the trunk and assembling the "stack" . . . There are three empty RAM slots in the 20 and these four DIMMS will fit, it's just a question of compatibility checking.
Here's a closeup of two Graphics Cards from the SPARCstation 5s with what appears to be their own VRAM . . .
I'll have to yank the oddball Network Card outta the SPARCstation 20 and try to do two monitors using whichever of these cards is better . . . along with the MoBo Proc/Connector and Stick of VRAM in the 20 . . . if that's even possible. =8-/
Here's a shot of all but the two Sun KBDs from today's haul:
Clock-wise starting at the:
* KeyTronic w/Spherically Correct Pointing Device/Controller that is ripe for hacking! }
*The DEC KBD was a "gottahaveit" purple match for the DECstation Shell that almost became the basis for my ubuntuGIMPbox hack.
* The KBD above that has Alps Mechanical Key Switches in a matrix for which I have very special plans! :rambo:
* Next to that is a GRID "gottahaveit" just because I've always loved their Macho-Machines.
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* Under the GRID is an HP with a daisy-chainable phone type connector I've never seen before, that just may fit a certain 128k+++ . . .
. . . or probably not . . . :-/
* The best-for-last is a TELEX w/a bunch of DIP switches under a plexi/plastic panel on the bottom. It was manufactured right on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle here in Raleigh, NC! I'm guessing it's a configurable ASCII outputtin', BEAST of a KBD so naturally, it was in the "REALLYgottahaveit" category along with my 1.9 Sun KBDs in the other piccie. [] ]'>
Well, that's the lot for now, I'll probably put off playing with most of these toys while I concentrate on my three PlexIntensiveProjects for the time being!
Edit: Make that FOUR plexi projects, I forgot about the GIMPbox!)
Notice the incredibly disgusting SPARCstation 10 on the bottom of the pile, as soon as I get the chance, I'll gut anything else that may be useful (and can be cleaned up sufficiently) at some point in the future.
When that one is finally gone to recycling, I think I'll call the remainder of this assembly a SPARCcube™!
If I had the room for it, this configuration would make a great end table/space heater! :
Here are a few of the goodies I pulled out while I was unloading the trunk and assembling the "stack" . . . There are three empty RAM slots in the 20 and these four DIMMS will fit, it's just a question of compatibility checking.
Here's a closeup of two Graphics Cards from the SPARCstation 5s with what appears to be their own VRAM . . .
I'll have to yank the oddball Network Card outta the SPARCstation 20 and try to do two monitors using whichever of these cards is better . . . along with the MoBo Proc/Connector and Stick of VRAM in the 20 . . . if that's even possible. =8-/
Here's a shot of all but the two Sun KBDs from today's haul:
Clock-wise starting at the:
* KeyTronic w/Spherically Correct Pointing Device/Controller that is ripe for hacking! }
*The DEC KBD was a "gottahaveit" purple match for the DECstation Shell that almost became the basis for my ubuntuGIMPbox hack.
* The KBD above that has Alps Mechanical Key Switches in a matrix for which I have very special plans! :rambo:
* Next to that is a GRID "gottahaveit" just because I've always loved their Macho-Machines.
) * Under the GRID is an HP with a daisy-chainable phone type connector I've never seen before, that just may fit a certain 128k+++ . . .
. . . or probably not . . . :-/ * The best-for-last is a TELEX w/a bunch of DIP switches under a plexi/plastic panel on the bottom. It was manufactured right on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle here in Raleigh, NC! I'm guessing it's a configurable ASCII outputtin', BEAST of a KBD so naturally, it was in the "REALLYgottahaveit" category along with my 1.9 Sun KBDs in the other piccie. [
] ]'>Well, that's the lot for now, I'll probably put off playing with most of these toys while I concentrate on my three PlexIntensiveProjects for the time being!
Edit: Make that FOUR plexi projects, I forgot about the GIMPbox!
) 
I have to send my tax forms in. I'm going to have a nice refund coming for some conquests. There's quite a few things that have been on my list for a while like a type 4 keyboard and mouse for my Sun SparcStation. I've started it up and it powers on but it does a keyboard and mouse check and I haven't had one to be able to get it to fully boot. Those are the only things I need to get it up and running to try out Solaris. I think it might be able to run Solaris 9, but it's really too slow so I'll probably have to back down a version or two. I am pretty sure it probably only has Solaris 2.3 on it now, though I could be wrong.
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The reason I'm posting here again, is that I got the Sub-Woofer back today after I'd returned it the day after I got it, coincidentally, the same day I got the rest of my SparcStack™ and the KBDs. The Sub's still in inoperable condition . . .
. . . until hack the lil' somonab . . . }
But it really shouldn't be all that bad, I've just got to noodle out all the low voltage control lines relayed to and fro between the Sub/System Amp and the two front speakers, including the on-off button and Volume Control for the Sub.
After a bit of time without hearing back from the shop, I began to pester them!
I finally went in today, knowing I couldn't get my money back, and we found MOST of the paperwork I'd left taped to the top of the Sub. While they were hemmin'-n-hawin' about what to do, I spotted some kind of 17" Apple LCD Studio Display and asked about it. At first they said it had to go to the owner's for some reason or other, probably because they didn't have anything to test it with. This is the same place I got the "as is" 17" CRT Studio Display that's been my main monitor ever since. I told them I had no qualms about buying the Sub "as is" for $10, but some arrangement had to be made because they'd sold me something that tested OK in January with all the parts hooked up and then, when some idiot(s) brought the two pairs of speakers that went with it up to the counter separately, they re-priced them and sold them!
Finally, the manager said: "Will you take the Sub and the Monitor so I can be done with this?" }
"No Problem," I said . . . :approve: :lol:
. . . and now my 17" CRT SD is pushed way back and, in front of it, the (slightly beat-up, NCSU sourced) 17" LCD SD is tickin' along like a freakin Timex! It won't win any beauty contests, but it'll help to keep the temperature down when I use the QS02/space heater at my (upstairs) bedroom workstation this summer!
The full 17" diagonal 1280 x 1024 also looks a little less like the ole' SE Periscope than the 17" CRT did, after so many years of 21" Graphics Level CRTs, I'm kinda picky about Displays! It's also the first time that I've EVER used an LCD as the main monitor on my primary design station. =8-P
I'm still a little over-budget for the IRS Refund Madness, but I'm very happy with how this "next to the last chapter" of my Sub-Woofer's liberation has played out! [] ]'>
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The reason I'm posting here again, is that I got the Sub-Woofer back today after I'd returned it the day after I got it, coincidentally, the same day I got the rest of my SparcStack™ and the KBDs. The Sub's still in inoperable condition . . .
. . . until hack the lil' somonab . . . }
But it really shouldn't be all that bad, I've just got to noodle out all the low voltage control lines relayed to and fro between the Sub/System Amp and the two front speakers, including the on-off button and Volume Control for the Sub.
After a bit of time without hearing back from the shop, I began to pester them!
Finally, the manager said: "Will you take the Sub and the Monitor so I can be done with this?" }
"No Problem," I said . . . :approve:
:lol: . . . and now my 17" CRT SD is pushed way back and, in front of it, the (slightly beat-up, NCSU sourced) 17" LCD SD is tickin' along like a freakin Timex! It won't win any beauty contests, but it'll help to keep the temperature down when I use the QS02/space heater at my (upstairs) bedroom workstation this summer!
The full 17" diagonal 1280 x 1024 also looks a little less like the ole' SE Periscope than the 17" CRT did, after so many years of 21" Graphics Level CRTs, I'm kinda picky about Displays! It's also the first time that I've EVER used an LCD as the main monitor on my primary design station. =8-P
I'm still a little over-budget for the IRS Refund Madness, but I'm very happy with how this "next to the last chapter" of my Sub-Woofer's liberation has played out! [
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