<retrocomtoday@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Excuse me for sounding dumb, but I've just picked up the above machine
> with three external SCSI drives, an optical mouse and keyboard, and a
> 21" massive monitor. I've no idea what spec this machine is, what it
> does or what it is useful for, so any advice, help or pointers are
> welcome.
>

Its most likely a a 66Mhz single SPARC CPU box with 4 x 4.7Gb drives. Good
for a change when getting tired of watching paint dry, or keeping the room
warm when the heating fails. Lifting the monitor can also provide usefull
weight training when no other alternatives. Will do most things that you can
do with a Pentium II, but much more slowly.

I still have one in the shack (i am a Ham) but don't use it any more, I now
have a U60 which is less slow, to the point of being almost usable, but
generates more heat and takes up more space....

I am not sure which versions of Solaris will work on it, I think that if you
have enough Ram Solaris 5.9 will run. You cna get it here

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/9/index.xml

but you may want an older version. Media for these sometimes pop up on
E-Bay. If you intend to play with it its probably worth finding more RAM
unless its "fully loaded".

Amazing to think these were once the fastest desktops you could buy.

> Many thanks,
>
> Shaun Bebbington.

That's OK...