[rescue] Spotted at VCFSW today

Andrew Jones andrew at jones.ec
Sat May 30 05:36:49 UTC 2026


It seems like a very cruel wasted effort

appears to be the same basic design concept as the jj-series "JavaStations," but we can tell they fabricated their own board because the ports are in a different layout :(



On Friday, May 29th, 2026 at 19:03, Lionel Peterson via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> They just crammed a turbosparc 170 into shoebox trying make an alternative to the Java stations others in Sun were working on.
> 
> So yes, aside from form-factor, a pretty plain machine.
> 
> Ken
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> > On May 29, 2026, at 17:03, Mouse via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> > 
> >>
> >> It is a Sun4m box w/ 2 SBUS slots & 64 Meg RAM.  [...]
> >
> > So, aside from the rarity factor, nothing particularly interesting?
> >
> >> He says there are about 3 of these in the world ?
> >
> > That would explain why I've never seen one. :-)
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