Date: Mon, 10 Sep 90 12:36:14 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V3 #27 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 10 Sep 90 Volume 3 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: Sun 2/170 upgrade schemes Yet more third-party parts/repair hopes +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 9 Sep 90 03:12:04 GMT From: ames!quack.sac.ca.us!mrapple (Nick Sayer) Subject: Sun 2/170 upgrade schemes To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I have a Sun 2/170 and eventually I want to replace it with a system that can run SunOS 4.1. That means a Sun 3 or Sun 4. Trouble is, I want to keep some of my current hardware. quack is: The big black box (card cage & PS) CPU card (the usual) Ethernet controller (the ie0 kind) Xylogics SMD disk controller Fujitsu M2351 Eagle & 2 MK2312 disks (1 MK2312 currently unused) Tapemaster 1/2 inch controller CDC 1/2" tape drive MTI-1600 serial multiplexer 4 1MB RAM cards I have no graphics hardware, and use a dumb terminal for a console. Adding graphics would be nice, I suppose, but I can do without it. If/when I upgrade, I want to keep the drives, the CDC tape drive, and the MTI-1600. At uop.edu, we have a setup that's just about ideal. It's a 3/160 with an MTI-1600, an Eagle and a tape drive similar to the CDC. How did they do it? Do Sun 2 boards plug into the 3? What sort of adapter is necessary to achieve this (if any)? How much would it cost to get a Sun 3 with a CPU and the necessary adapters or new controllers to get the CDC, SMD disks and the MTI working? The only thing I really want to preserve is the MTI-1600. I can get used to 1/4" if I have to, and SCSI disks would be nicer, but the idea behind keeping half the old hardware is saving money. -- Nick Sayer | Disclaimer: N6QQQ [44.2.1.17 soon] | "Just because you're reading my post doesn't mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | mean we're gonna take long showers together." 209-952-5347 (Telebit) | -- Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Highway ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 18:46:46 PDT From: jkay%cs@ucsd.edu (Jonathan Kay) Subject: Yet more third-party parts/repair hopes To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu My Sun-3/60 just broke! Does anybody know of good repair people (other than Sun) or places one can buy individual parts (e.g., probably a new motherboard, alas) (again, other than good ol' bargain-basement Sun) in Southern California? I scrutinized the Sunspots archives and only found all-too-similar distress calls, with no answers. Worst of all, I had an LA number for such a place, but it was, of course, conveniently on -you guessed it- my Sun's disk. Thanks! Jon [ This question gets asked often enough that I'm willing to try and collect ] [ a list of addresses and phone numbers of places that repair/sell used ] [ Suns. If you have a place you've used, mail it to the digest address and ] [ I'll filter them out and put the list in the archives. This will help ] [ Jon and all those suffering the sun-down blues. --ddm ] ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************