Sad. I worked at Sun for a time and much of my early career was spent working with Sun workstations and servers so this brings back a lot of memories.
I always liked the lunchbox form factor, especially when there was a bunch of matching form factor devices stacked on top of it. For a while I had an IPX or maybe IPC with a CD-ROM, tape drive, and multiple HDD enclosures stacked on top of it all with matching Sun cases. I had a sticker on it that said âthe tower of powerâ.
I was also always jealous of the guy down the hall from me who had a SPARCstation 20 which was top of the line at the time. At a later job I thought I was cool because I had an Ultra 2 at my desk.
Sounds impressive.
I too like the design of that case. Kind of like a Macintosh II, but folded in half.
It really wasnât that impressive. It was a bunch of cobbled together stuff I had collected over a period of time. I probably barely had 5GB of disk space total even with some 3 enclosures. And having a tape drive was beyond unnecessary.
But it sure looked cool. I wish I had a picture of it.
Hereâs a second attempt at a âtower of powerâ from some 25 years or so ago. I couldnât stack it all up because it would break the shelf it was on, and it didnât have a tape drive, but it gets the point across:
(Yes, itâs potato quality. It was taken on a really, really old digital camera.)
A little better?
Samesies. My first job after uni involved Sparc 4 lunchboxes and Sparc 5 pizza boxes. Definitely preferred the performance of the 5, but loved the shape of the 4. Iâm very messy my with desk space; the 4 shared that space so nicely.
Surprised we didnât see a battery fire.
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*chef kiss
Thatâs super cool!
Does anyone know how to run ms-dos apps on Linux and/or MacOS?
I canât use Dosbox unless I can stop the blinding paincursor and replace dark mode with readable text in light mode. (I know itâs supposed to show where you are typing: somewhere in the painful blur in the general direction of the computer screen.)
You might look into trying either QEMU or Bochs. You can install FreeDOS on a virtual disk, and run your app under it within either emulator. I donât know if either of these will cause visual problems for you, but QEMU seems to have a pretty neutral interface (I use it in my Operating Systems and Systems Programming classes, and havenât heard any complaints from students about that aspect, but anecdata isnât proof).
EDIT: typos do vex me greatly!