Sun SPARCclassic
In September 2009 I started to downsize this collection to a few items and then archived this section to its own subdomain at the start of October 2011. Remaining items sold off in mid 2024.
This system
In late May 2006 I obtained this SPARCclassic via eBay. Technically it is a
SPARCclassic X but it had an NVRAM update applied to make it support an
internal hard disk.
Images
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sparcclassic-01.jpg, 1200x900, 143KB |
| The front of the unit is pretty unassuming with the floppy drive opening filled
with a cover.
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sparcclassic-02.jpg, 1200x900, 165KB |
| The rear of the unit features an array of ports that includes keyboard/mouse,
serial, SCSI, parallel, ethernet and (behind a rubber cap above the serial
ports) audio in and outs.
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sparcclassic-03.jpg, 1200x900, 214KB |
| Just like the IPC the case splits into
two with the mainboard in the bottom half while the hard drive, power supply
and (potentially) floppy drive are housed in the top.
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sparcclassic-04.jpg, 1200x900, 247KB |
| The mainboard removed from the case by simply disconnecting the power and data
cables and pushing the lever that comes up through the board near the RAM slots
which disconnects it from the rear ports.
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sparcclassic-05.jpg, 1200x900, 201KB |
| The connector on the board that holds the rear ports where the mainboard
connects.
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