[Suns-at-Home] Ancient Artifacts

[silvercreekvalley]

I'm in the slow (very slow) process of restoring an
old multibus Sun
machine. Its going OK, the CPU boots up recognises the
RAM and graphics
card, etc. Need to hook up an old SCSI disk and tape
next.
 
Just wondered if anyone has any of the old manuals for
the multibus
cards. These used to hold a lot of useful info, much
of which is no
longer on the web. Particulaly info on the older
graphics cards (cg1,
bw1 etc).
 
I'm aware of the exellent sun faq which has been a
great help, and have
found the CPU manuals on bitsavers etc.
 
I also wondered if anyone had ever approached Sun with
a view to getting
the ancient versions of SunOS made available for
hobby/collector use?
NetBSD is great and it a truly amazing achievement to
get it running on
Sun 2 machines - but many of the old but fun multibus
cards remain
unsupported (eg the Sky Floating point card and the
cg1).

One interesting thing with the original Sun multibus
color card, cg1,
was that it was possible to have 3 cards in a multibus
rack, each
generating output for one color (RGB). A sort of SLI
for the 1980's
(just kidding). Anyone ever try that?
 
Thanks
 
Ian.


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