[Gllug] Hardware giveaway!

[Caroline Ford]

On 26 Jul 2009, at 21:37, John Edwards <john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:05:04PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
>> All free! Give away, not sell!
>>
>> The sun monitor is a 17 inch CRT with the sun connection of the time
>> which I've forgotten the name of.
>
> The connection type is called "13W3" and is used on old (1990s)
> Sun, SGI and IBM Unix machines. You can get adapters to and from
> VGA for about 10 UKP.
>
> The SparcStation and Ultra1 machines will almost certainly use a
> graphics card with 13W3 instead of VGA (if they have a graphics
> card at all).
>
The all have graphics cards with that connection. They all run net/ 
open bsd, although openbsd for sparc32 doesn't like the multi  
processors in the sparcstations.


> If you don't want the expensive or space of a CRT monitor, then
> for a basic console you can use a serial cable instead. Though
> there used to be a bug where disconnecting the serial cable caused
> a BREAK signal which stopped the OS and switched the machine into
> PROM mode (equivalent of the BIOS in a PC):
>    http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/serial/
>
>
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