Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 10:49:32 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #11 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 9 Mar 92 Volume 5 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: cg3 -> NEC 5FG cheap printer for SLC? how much disk space do I need Oldest running Sun? Question on Installing SunOS 3.5 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Mar 1992 04:24:29 UTC From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) Subject: cg3 -> NEC 5FG To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I have a 3 slot VME-9U chassis with a 501-1164 CPU, a Parity systems memory+SCSI board and an ALM-I. Ignoring for the moment that something's going to have to come out to stick the cg3 in, can I hook a cg3 to an NEC 5FG multisync monitor? Here are the specs: Horizontal frequency range: 27-79 kHz Vertical frequency range: 55-90 Hz Bandwidth: 135 MHz For what it's worth, the "PC compatability" part of the brochure mentions 1152x900. If the specs are good, there's one thing left to worry about: The one I saw in the store had one of those super-weird high-density-DB-15-the-size-of-a-DB-9 plugs. The cg3 I am going to get will probably have BNC connectors (either that or the funky ten-pins-plus-three-coax-things-in-a-plug- the-size-of-a-DB-25). 1. Will this work? I think it will, but would like confirmation. 2. Has anyone done this? 3. Where can I buy these weird connectors? What are they called? 4. What is the pinout of the weird SuperVGA plug thing? 5. They want about $1700 for this monitor, which is 17". Sounds good to me, but am I being ripped? -- Nick Sayer | "People ask me, 'Alexei, what's the best N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA | version of Unix for Intel processors?' 37 19 49 N / 121 57 36 W | And I say, 'Piss off, you stupid twit!'" +1 408 249 963[012] (modem) | -- Alexei Sayle (if he were a Unix hacker) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 92 09:58:28 EST From: smb@ulysses.att.com Subject: cheap printer for SLC? To: sah@ecn.purdue.edu (Suns-at-Home Mailing List) Howdy. I'm soliciting recommendations for cheap printers for SLCs at home. Since it's for the SLC, RS-232 printers that can operate on the B port are preferred. (There are modems on the A ports.) Ability to handle PostScript is essential. Speed is not that important, and we can live with comparatively low resolution. --Steve Bellovin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 16:27:45 EST From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) Subject: how much disk space do I need To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Unless you've got boatloads of ram and patience, dump the OpenWindows stuff. Either run SunView or find binary copy of X11 for the Sun-3, and you'll get much better response. With only 14MB of swap, you're asking for trouble with OpenWindows. Be judicious about what you delete from the System V bin and libraries. Some things like vi have been ported to system v-ish versions or terminfo. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 09:28:19 EST From: Chuck Musciano Subject: Oldest running Sun? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu This May is the 10th anniversary of Sun's shipping the Sun-100, the great-grandfather of all the machines now gracing our desks and machine rooms. To commemorate the event, SunWorld magazine will be publishing a restrospective look at Sun's accomplishments over the past decade. As part of that article, we are *very* interested in finding the oldest running Sun. If you are still running some old Sun-2, I *really* want to talk to you as soon as possible. If anyone has a functioning Sun-100, I am prepared to make you famous. :-) I would like to locate the oldest machines running in business, academic, and home environments. Please contact me at your earliest opportunity, preferably via e-mail or via phone, at the number below. Include a daytime phone number at which you can be reached. Thanks! -- Chuck Musciano ARPA : chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com Harris Corporation Usenet: ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!chuck PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 AT&T : (407) 727-6131 Melbourne, FL 32902 FAX : (407) 729-3363 A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. -- Garrison Keillor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 15:42:58 -0800 From: rc@noc.vitalink.com (Ran-Chi Huang) Subject: Question on Installing SunOS 3.5 To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Yes you read it right ... I'm looking for some documentation on how to install SunOS 3.5 on a Sun 3/60. I have the tapes but need the first few pages of the installation instructions. If you do have this could you please drop me a line ? Thanks Ran-Chi Huang Internet: rc@NOC.Vitalink.COM Vitalink Communications, Fremont, CA Phone: +1 510-713-6333 ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************