A company called RDI made the Britelite and Powerlite laptops. They
eventually merged with Tadpole, which made its own SPARC laptops
(SPARCbooks). As someone else mentioned, there were different Britelite
models based on the various Sun lunchbox system boards. When I had my
Britelite IPX on display on VCF, someone told me that they recognized
the case as something used in another laptop.
Sun never made their own laptop, but they made a portable called the
SPARCstation Voyager.
On 12/3/18 7:33 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
Very Nice collection! Yes have to love that laptop. Did not know
SUN made one. or I guess a third party put the Sun goodies in a
case of their design? either way NEAT!
Seeing a nice run of systems like this in wonderful condition
is great!
Ed#
In a message dated 12/2/2018 5:49:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
I will have to get back with you on the audio. It is on offline backup
media and I need to find it.
Here is a link to some photos of the exhibit -
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7qC8UbEYCeCf9CBo7
The RDI Britelite (laptop) is a SPARCstation IPX system board in a
laptop chassis. It was in the Day 1 exhibit, but not the Day 2 exhibit
because the power adapter died on the morning of the second day.
One of the photos is an opened-up SPARCstation LX, which is very similar
on the inside to your IPC.
My exhibit next year will be on early 90s SPARC clones.
alan
On 12/2/18 1:43 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
> Alan... would love a copy of the audio for our archives
here.
>
>
> Would like to see pix of your display too sounds neat!
>
> Any other files text or otherwise welcome also to this
address or drop us a dropbox link
>
> The Sun workstations I never knew too much about as at the
time did not seems like old history nor did we use any so
playing catchup!
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Ed#
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/2/2018 12:44:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> writes:
>
>
>
> There is only room for drives in the top half of the chassis. The PSU
> and an assembly that holds the drives fills the top half. A 3.5"
> half-height drive fits in one side of the assembly and a 3.5" floppy
> drive fits in the other. The PSU cables go from the rear to the front of
> that side of the chassis, below the FDD (when the chassis is closed).
>
> I did an exhibit on Sun lunchbox systems, including the IPC (4/40), for
> PNW VCF earlier this year. I looked for press kits, posters, etc. to use
> in the exhibit, but could only find text files. I know people who worked
> at Sun on the development of those early SPARCstations and none of them
> had any of that kind of material.
>
> I had an audio cassette "Introducing the IPC" for Sun sales. I donated
> it to CHM this year (but I ripped the audio before I sent it to them).
>
> alan
>
> On 12/2/18 10:13 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
>> Thanks for the info to get it open! when back at the
office shall do that.. there may be drives in 2 places - on
board and the off board one. Always interesting to explore
something one has only read about!
>>
>>
>>
>> Along the same line of UNIX stuff we have a COBALT 1U
Pretty blue sever and a COBALT CUBE. I do remember lusting
after one of these 1U COBALT servers when they were current
didn't have anything in the budget back then though for one. I
have been told SUN eventually ended up owning COBALT.
>>
>> As will all that we have we are looking for any ad
slicks press kits posters, wild artwork for the Sun $/40,
and the 2 COBALT machines..
>>
>> Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC www.smecc.org <http://www.smecc.org>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 12/1/2018 8:15:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
ape...@snowmoose.com <mailto:ape...@snowmoose.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> Yes. It is next to floppy in the upper half of the chassis. There
is a 50-pin (IDC connectors) ribbon cable that goes down to system
board at the bottom of the lower half of the chassis. The chassis
splits in the vertical middle in a, if looking at the chassis, fairly
obvious place. Because of the cables that run from the top to bottom,
it effectively hinges at the front of the chassis. There a couple
buttons on the side to release and sometimes a security cable bit to
remove (phillips screw).
>>
>> On 12/1/18 7:08 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
>> Hi Alan - The hard drive is same size cabinet.... with I guess
a SCSSI cable. I will have to look at it further... wonder
if starting it out on a variac would help the capacitors like
I do with the old radio sets here in the museum ed#
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 12/1/2018 8:04:03 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>> ape...@snowmoose.com <mailto:ape...@snowmoose.com> writes:
>>
>> Well, as I said, in my experience, the NVRAMs that you can buy new
from Mouser work good enough. And the mod to the original battery
isn't that hard to make.
>>
>> In my experience with IPCs, the bigger problem is the power
supplies. If the PS on the IPC that you have now doesn't need to be
re'capped now, it will need it soon. After that will likely be the HDD
that needs work. Almost all of my HDDs that originally shipped with
lunchbox systems up to the 424 meg (ST1480N) have died. The price for
working 50-pin SCSI HDDs are at a point that SD2SCSI parts make more
sense (unless you want to exhibit them as they originally ran).
>>
>> alan
>>
>> On 12/1/18 6:55 PM, ED SHARPE wrote:
>> BUMMER
>> It may become a static display.....
>>
>> Ed#
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 12/1/2018 7:53:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> writes:
>>
>> A 4/40 is a SPARCstation IPC. It used a M48T02 NVRAM for the IDPROM.
>>
>> Yes, one with the dreaded battery.
>>
>> alan
>>
>> On 12/1/18 5:04 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
>>> we were given this and a hard dribe a floor standimg
decwriter..... does this use NV ram with dreaded battery? thanks,ed
>>>
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