[rescue] Sun 3/60

[Dan Moisa]

Somehow I never got the CD to work, but also never had a real drive was
just trying with scsi2sd.

Ended up fixing a tape drive and writing tapes on a SS20 then loading on
the 3/60.

If anyone has tape drives where the wheel is gone, turns out a length of
silicon tubing can do the trick, and it's easy to find the right ID and OD.

On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 16:22 Kurt Nowak via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> Agree. I'm also running SunOS on all my Sun3s. Runs great on my 3/60 and
> 3/50. Easy and well documented installation procedures. The remote CD
> install was quite handy too assuming you have the the latest Boot ROM. I
> tried NetBSD on my 3/80 and it was painfully slow. The install instructions
> were absolutely horrible for that architecture from what I recall.
>
> -Kurt
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 10:26 Dan Moisa via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Really recommend running vintage on this machine
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 10:22 Cameron Kelly via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> >What OS do you intend to run on it ? Vintage SunOS 4.x or some more
>>> >recent NetBSD ?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure. Preferably both but I'm biased towards NetBSD since it's
>>> easy to get a modern Unix environment going with package management
>>> and whatever else going.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 1:18 PM Romain Dolbeau via rescue
>>> <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 09:41 Cameron Kelly via rescue <
>>> rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>> > > Me and a friend have been toying with the idea of recreating a Sun
>>> > > 3/60 from scratch
>>> >
>>> > What OS do you intend to run on it ? Vintage SunOS 4.x or some more
>>> > recent NetBSD ?
>>> >
>>> > Le dim. 12 nov. 2023 à 18:51, Dan Moisa via rescue
>>> > <rescue at sunhelp.org> a écrit :
>>> > > I'm trying to do the same thing. Here's what i have:
>>> > > - a whole lot of the schematics digitized into kicad, with very
>>> questionable quality - was my first project
>>> > > - a bunch of 3/60 boards, homemade card adaptor to power from
>>> regular PSU, keyboards, etc. in working condition
>>> > > - almost all the chips including almost all the weird PAL variants,
>>> unprogrammed.
>>> > > - all the various info found online.
>>> > > Let's chat, I can set you up with most of this if you promise you
>>> don't give up like I did.
>>> >
>>> > A good solution might be to share that on GiHub or similar to foster
>>> > collaboration.
>>> > I haven't tried to recreate a system, but I've looked at the P4
>>> > connector to see if I could port my '030 FPGA-base expansion design
>>> > [1] to a 3/80 or 3/60. Unfortunately I don't have a 3/60 and my 3/80
>>> > motherboard is dead for now so that stalled :-( But a recreated 3/60
>>> > would be of interest to me for that reason. Maybe help where I can
>>> > (time permitting!).
>>> >
>>> > Cordially,
>>> >
>>> > Romain
>>> >
>>> > [1] e.g. <https://github.com/rdolbeau/SBusFPGA>, the closest
>>> > conceptually talks to the '030 bus:
>>> > <https://github.com/rdolbeau/IIsiFPGA>
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Romain Dolbeau
>>> >
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