...picking up some old Suns
The other day I found these Suns on an auctionsite… a Sun Ultra 1 Enterprise and a Sun Ultra 2 Enterprise. Last friday I picked them up and darn! did I get a work-out at the same time… These babies weigh in pretty hefty! :-)
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This is in the train…
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...and already at home! (that didn’t go this smooth in real life…)
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I did get a new/unused keyboard with brand new mousepad with the set… how nice! :-)
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Ah, even thought an enterprise on these ultra’s is not much more than removing the videocard(...) the nameplates are cool!
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I bought this lot with unknown specs (happens a lot when you’re shopping for more exotic stuff…)
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Well, it looks like there’s plenty of memory…
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...and two CPU-modules…
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Let’s see what we have (I bought it solely for the Ultra 2, the Ultra 1 is somehow extra…)
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Ah, 2×200MHz and 512MB… not bad :-)
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Here I’m swapping parts in between the three Ultra’s (I already had another Ultra 1)
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And in my closet :-)
At this moment, I divided it in machines with these specs:
Ultra 2 Enterprise:
2×200MHz
512MB
1x quad happy meal (4×100 mbit) + onboard happy meal (1×100mbit)
old SCSI-disk (4.3GB)... I’m thinking of netbooting these two… they’re still very nice machines but I totally had it with old SCSI-drives ;-)
Ultra 1 Enterprise:
143MHz
128MB
1x happy meal (1×100 mbit) + onboard le (10mbit)
old SCSI-disk (4.3GB)
So… what’s the plan? Well… I already had plans in building a dual ethernetbridge... I’m not sure why, just because it is possible I guess and I want to experiment with it… Originally I wanted to put some Cisco in between, but all the models with a throughput of 10mbit+ (with some firewall-rules) seem to be extremely overpriced on the second hand market (I’m not gonna pay 100 euro+ for some Motorola 68030 or MIPS 4700-based piece of hardware for instance…)
So, I guess I’ll be making a router of the Ultra 1 and a dual bridge of the Ultra 2… I’m not sure if I gain any advantage in wiring it up that way, but well, I’ll see… It does become a nice spaghetti-wired closet this way and somehow that’s nice too :D
Oh, it all runs OpenBSD by the way…
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