[rescue] storing old Suns and parts

[Walter Belgers]

> On 9 Apr 2026, at 01:44, Dan Moisa via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> FWIW I'm collecting* a bunch, and usually interested in sun3, Voyager/tadpole and pre-sparc stuff. You don't have to throw it away, just pass it on to the next generation :)

It's actually not easy to find interested people (next generation or not) that want to take over systems (other than the very unique ones). The discussion did make me think about what to do. If there are people out there trying to keep systems working and are looking for specific parts, send me an e-mail. Note that I am in the Netherlands.

> Would folks be willing to share ls -R of your hoard? Did anyone make an index somewhere already?

A short overview. Many systems I have multiple of:

Sun1: Kontron PSI Ψ 9068 with 501-0600 "Sun1.5" CPU board
Sun2: 2/50, 2/120
Sun3: 3/50 (with and without dimple), 3/60, 3/75, 3/80, 3/110
Sun386i: Sun386i/250 with disk expansion
Sun4: 4/110, 1, 1+, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, X-terminal 1, Classic, Classic X, IPX, IPC, LX, ELC, SLC, SunScreen SPF-100, T-SPARCstation 2, SPARCserver 1000
Ultra: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 60  
Blade: 100, 150, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500 silver, 2500 beige, 2500 red
Netra: i4, i5, T1/105, T1/AC200, T1000, T2000, X1
Fire: V100, V210, V250, B1600, X2200
Server: V20z, V40z
Portable: Naturetech GENIALstation 737S, Voyager, SPARCbook 3, SPARCbook, RDI Powerlite, RDI PrecisionBook
Ray: 1, 1G, 100, 2, 3 
Javastation: NC (Krups), 1 (Mr Coffee) (both colours)
Clones: Fujitsu SS5, TRITEC SS20, Tatung SS10, Solair SS5, Solair SS10, Axil SS10
Parts: too many to mention, sbus, VME, mbus, speakers, camera's, suntuner, CPUs, disks, SIMMS, ..
Documentation: boxes full of it
Media: boxes full of original tapes, CDs and DVDs 
Promo: body warmer, mugs, pens, sled, pens, mouse mats and much more

In the past few days, I tested 25 systems (alle pizza/lunchbox). A few need a re-install and three are just dead (of which 2 lunchboxes, which are notorious for their PSU's I believe). Also, there's many with the original (now empty) NVRAM. I thought I had fixed quite a few, but not nearly as much as I thought. I might spend some time on soldering batteries onto a lot of NVRAM chips before I shelve them.

Regards,
Walter.