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Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by nineteen999 »

kazinator wrote: post #4
zeruch wrote: post #2

Oh, the nostalgia...(disclosure: worked at Sun in the mid 90s)

I had a Sun SparcStation 20 in the mid 90's at work. I was some discarded equipment that nobody was using, that was just laying in a corner somewhere. I put Red Hat Linux 2.0 on it from a CD-ROM. I put a TFTP server on it, and used it as the server for booting an NCD X/Window terminal. Also something nobody gave a shit about. I had GIMP running on it; at some point, people gathered around the cube to see that. Being…

I managed to acquire a Sun E3500 from a former employer, which is almost the size of a bar fridge. It used to throw enough heat to keep my house warm. Unfortunately it was noisy as hell. The ethernet transceiver died at some point and I couldn't be bothered replacing it, so it just became a bedside table until I finally disposed of it.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by boondaburrah »

hyakosm wrote: post #25

It's really a nice idea to save and collect these little history artifacts. In the same way, I wonder if we can extract the serif monospace font used on these workstations.

IIRC this font is available in the linux kernel. Every time I build one for my laptop I set it as the system's text-mode font because it makes using a 1080p screen in 15" quite nice (and I usually have to spend some time debugging why nvidia drivers have fucked up again (damn switchable graphics))

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by GekkePrutser »

jdswain wrote: post #6

I do miss the diversity of computing from back then. Today everything has converged on looking and acting almost the same, but back then there was so much more choice. Amiga, Atari St, Mac, SGI, Sun, NeXT, and a whole lot more.

I miss this too. Both on the software and hardware side. We've lost a lot, though on the other hand computing is more mature now.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by ianai »

0des wrote: post #23
gonzo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you mean “Plan 9”; in case anyone wants to search for it.

A subset of us still use plan9, usually in the form of 9front. Every time I think of Plan9, I get a little misty eyed and wistful. I'm just old enough to remembering time sharing systems and mainframes. These days looking at whats called cloud, I'm seeing a lot of the old architecture coming back, loosely speaking. Mobile devices are like the new dumb terminals, the browser is the shell, and the cloud is our mainfram…

I completely agree! What are the features from the front end of P9 that you miss most?

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by ace2358 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #33

Were they really all this low-res?

I’d believe it. It’s my understanding that a current iPhone app icon is almost the same resolution as the first Macintosh screen. Crazy times! Have to remember that the old CRT screens took pixelated images and gave the a smooth glowing look.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by jasoneckert »

gonzo wrote: post #16

Technically the SPARCbook/SPARCbook 3 logos aren’t Sun Workstation boot logos.

True, of course - but they may as well have been made by Sun, since they use Sun's custom ICs and were basically a SPARCstation in a laptop form factor: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook-teardown/
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