{"id":744,"date":"2018-11-24T23:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T04:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=744"},"modified":"2018-11-25T18:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T23:16:39","slug":"744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2018\/11\/24\/744\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparcbook 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tadpole Sparcbook3 was dug up out of storage in time to submit it for the Reddit Portable Battlestation contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0This one came from a Craigslist buy at least a decade ago, and I promptly just stuck the whole box in storage. It came with a couple of CDROMS, batteries and accessories (scsi cable, 2 Sun 3 button mice and some nice thin-net AUI transceivers). It boots up into the os now and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have root yet so I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t logged in. There is an ip address on a sticker on the bottom of the system that someone in reddit pointed out is for Lockheed Martin, and upon boot it complains about not finding SQS data directories. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure they are referring to Boeing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s SQS visualization system<\/a>. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t boot into X just a terminal login prompt. There are no disk or documentation for SQS.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to get a clean install of Solaris on it, using the sunboot from halfmanhalftaco<\/a> who also did the irixboot which worked great on my Indigo. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m testing the netboot using my Ultra10, but that is having issues with getting a serial connection to show me a terminal.<\/p>\n

Software<\/h1>\n

\u00c2\u00a0I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made images of the ISO that I got with the SparcBook3 available here – Downloads<\/a><\/p>\n

I will image the floppies that came with it and get them there soon.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"IMG<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"IMG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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