Sparc5 bits wanted

Witchy witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk
Fri Apr 1 04:21:59 CST 2005


Folks,

(eep, is a Sparc5 on topic?!)

While clearing out the soon-to-be dining room where all my stuff has been
stored for the last couple of years I found a Sparc5 that I'd completely
forgotten about. It's been completely robbed of bits that I can see -
memory, floppy drive, CD, HDD - so what's the minimum I can get away with
before at least powering it up to see if it works? The only spare memory
I've got is PC100 (may even be PC66) 168-pin DIMMS.

Can I use a serial console on it or do I need a 13w3 monitor cable? The
HDD looks like it's a standard SCA-80 connection....keyboard and mouse are
there but I hope I don't need one of those foil mousemats!

Assuming it does work does anyone have a floppy and CD spare for this thing?

Cheers!

-- 
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?


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