Performa
Member
A little while back, I met with a local seller about a really cool piece of hardware they had listed. For roughly 25 years, SUN Microsystems developed and sold their own line of proprietary RISC-based Unix workstations. The names and uses varied, but the powerful SPARC architecture made these great machines for programming, networking, and other related tasks. The Sun Blade range was first introduced in 2000 with numerous variations and iterations through 2006, more info on that HERE. A few members expressed interest in this interesting machine, and so here it is:
These machines were designed to run SUN's proprietary operating system, Solaris (no relation to the Wood county telecom company of the same name) though this one is set up with OpenBSD, though the seller gave me a list of other operating systems we might want to try out or play with in the future.
I've reached out to a few of the members who were previously interested in this machine already, and how we can make the most of it for everyone here. No major plans have been set, so if you have an idea of what you/we can do with this curious machine going forward, I'd love to hear it! Likewise, if you have any experience with these cool machines, let me know!
At some point, potentially at the May show, I could see this standing in line with the "Not Windows" graphical user interface display (alongside GEOS, OS/2, Workbench, etc.) but I don't have a fixed time when that display will be set and ready to go. So many possibilities, so little time!
These machines were designed to run SUN's proprietary operating system, Solaris (no relation to the Wood county telecom company of the same name) though this one is set up with OpenBSD, though the seller gave me a list of other operating systems we might want to try out or play with in the future.
I've reached out to a few of the members who were previously interested in this machine already, and how we can make the most of it for everyone here. No major plans have been set, so if you have an idea of what you/we can do with this curious machine going forward, I'd love to hear it! Likewise, if you have any experience with these cool machines, let me know!
At some point, potentially at the May show, I could see this standing in line with the "Not Windows" graphical user interface display (alongside GEOS, OS/2, Workbench, etc.) but I don't have a fixed time when that display will be set and ready to go. So many possibilities, so little time!
