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Grex Systems Item 127: The Sun Microsystems Item
Entered by ball on Wed Dec 13 04:34:06 UTC 2017:

An item about computers (and probably software) from Sun
Microsystems.  Related hardware from Oracle and Hitachi are
probably also fair game.

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by ball on Wed Dec 13 04:39:16 2017:

    I just spent some time digging around in Old Jellyware
to clarify some vague memories about the old Grex 4/670.  It
sounds as though we lived in a 3/160 (or Computervision
clone thereof) and perhaps even a Sun 2, if you go back far
enough.  Anyone who remembers the old iron might find this
video entertaining or interesting:

                http://youtu.be/c5qH-LW3tq8

    In it, Dr. Steve Bagley attempts to clean up and boot an
old 3/160.

#2 of 7 by ball on Wed Dec 13 04:53:01 2017:

s/Hitachi/Fujitsu/

#3 of 7 by tod on Tue Dec 26 15:41:27 2017:

re #1
 :)
I donated the old Sun 3/260 to the Pumpkin way back when
Bagley's is in sweet condition - envious!

#4 of 7 by ball on Wed Dec 27 03:24:24 2017:

Thanks for that! :-)

#5 of 7 by tod on Wed Dec 27 19:31:50 2017:

The old SunOs was nice.  When things went RISC on UltraSparc, etc using
Solaris, etc then much of the thrill was gone.  Though, for a good window
of time it had the best httpd around and made an excellent IPX to TCP/IP
gateway.

#6 of 7 by kentn on Wed Dec 27 23:51:32 2017:

Definitely.  Though our ideas of speed in computing have changed over the
years as hardware has gotten faster, thanks for helping Grex then and now,
Todd!

#7 of 7 by tod on Sat Dec 30 06:34:51 2017:

re #6
DITTO, Kent! :)

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