I have dismantled my Sun Blade 100, circa 2002 era, and I have the (4) 500 MG memory sticks, keyboard, mouse, monitor, CD player, and the two original stock 15 GB IDE drives. If anyone wants the parts, let me know.
It was occasionally a noisy box. I kept mine in a metal enclosure for medium sized tower computers, bought via catalog. The enclosure really deadened the sound for around $35. This machine worked well with OpenBSD. Version 5.3 was very good on it. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. Original Message From: Graham Stephens Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2:31 PM To: na...@mips.inka.de Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification On 21/07/2015 17:10, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-07-21, Graham Stephens <gra...@thestephensdomain.com> wrote: > >> These machines were not fast when new, but I will say that if you do try >> one of these you *need* the proper memory for them (IIRC, registered). > > You need the proper memory for _any_ machine. And you misremember. > > spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB SDRAM ECC PC133CL2 > spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 512MB SDRAM ECC PC133CL2 > spdmem2 at iic0 addr 0x52: 256MB SDRAM ECC PC133CL2 > >> You can run them on cheaper (non registered) memory, but they run *MUCH* >> slower than with the supplied memory. > > That doesn't make any sense. > Now that you've called me out, I had to do a bit of digging to remember some of the facts... I have the alternative memory in working machines at the moment, so I can't take them apart to check the specs; it may be that the clock timings are different, I don't recall. I was right, however, about the memory being registered - I just had it the wrong way round. The OEM memory is ECC unbuffered. By changing a jumper on the motherboard it allows the use of ECC registered, which is easier to come by and hence cheaper - at least it was when I was looking last. This may explain the difference in speeds.
