I seem to recall that a 1GB expansion drive for a Sun SPARCstation cost about £2k in the mid 1990s.
October 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I seem to recall that a 1GB expansion drive for a Sun SPARCstation cost about £2k in the mid 1990s.
学校のSun-3が遅すぎるので、みんなrloginでSPARCstation使ってたの思い出すなぁ
September 24, 2026 at 4:49 AM
学校のSun-3が遅すぎるので、みんなrloginでSPARCstation使ってたの思い出すなぁ
It would be wonderfully nerdy if a SUN SPARCstation was used in some capacity when the system runs, if only for data readouts.
September 23, 2026 at 12:08 AM
It would be wonderfully nerdy if a SUN SPARCstation was used in some capacity when the system runs, if only for data readouts.
Cool. I used a Sparcstation to learning OS + Sybase.
September 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Cool. I used a Sparcstation to learning OS + Sybase.
the inherently lesbian need for a sun sparcstation
September 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM
the inherently lesbian need for a sun sparcstation
“Midnight in a Perfect World” was, somehow, the first bit of music I ever heard streamed over the Internet. (On RealPlayer, running on a Sun SparcStation at Thinking Machines Inc.) Which seems appropriate since even today it sounds beamed in from a distant and unimaginably cool future.
DJ Shadow released his debut album ‘Endtroducing.....’ 30 years ago on September 16, 1996
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Celebrating 30 Years of DJ Shadow’s Debut Album ‘Endtroducing.....’ (1996)
DJ Shadow’s debut album ‘Endtroducing…..’ was originally released in the UK on September 16, 1996 and in the US November 19, 1996.
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September 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM
“Midnight in a Perfect World” was, somehow, the first bit of music I ever heard streamed over the Internet. (On RealPlayer, running on a Sun SparcStation at Thinking Machines Inc.) Which seems appropriate since even today it sounds beamed in from a distant and unimaginably cool future.
As a nerd whose first exposure to Online with on her father's Sparcstation running netscape 2.0 on openwindows i endorse this.
September 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
As a nerd whose first exposure to Online with on her father's Sparcstation running netscape 2.0 on openwindows i endorse this.
The original fan is a 60x60x25 mm 12V fan, and I actually had a Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX fan for another project, so I decided it was time for a swap. It turns out this was the easiest project I've ever done. Unscrew the old fan, unplug it, screw in the new fan and use the molex power connectors. 3/4
September 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
The original fan is a 60x60x25 mm 12V fan, and I actually had a Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX fan for another project, so I decided it was time for a swap. It turns out this was the easiest project I've ever done. Unscrew the old fan, unplug it, screw in the new fan and use the molex power connectors. 3/4
Keeping this short, I really like this machine - but it's power supply fan (the only fan in the unit) was loud and quite high-pitched. 62 dBA by the fan, 48 dBA about a foot away, and with a lot of high-frequency components to its noise. 2/4
September 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Keeping this short, I really like this machine - but it's power supply fan (the only fan in the unit) was loud and quite high-pitched. 62 dBA by the fan, 48 dBA about a foot away, and with a lot of high-frequency components to its noise. 2/4
It's time for another SPARCstation Sunday - this time with my Frankenstein SPARCstation 2. I originally purchased a 1+, but it was nearly destroyed in shipping (hundreds of plastic fragments), so I bought another, discovering the motherboard had been swapped with an SS2! 1/4
September 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It's time for another SPARCstation Sunday - this time with my Frankenstein SPARCstation 2. I originally purchased a 1+, but it was nearly destroyed in shipping (hundreds of plastic fragments), so I bought another, discovering the motherboard had been swapped with an SS2! 1/4
The Centre for Computing History has a Sun SPARCstation Voyager on the bench… it’s a 1994 attempt at a workstation you could carry (“luggable”?), and a reminder that portable UNIX was once a radical proposition.
It’s #ThrowbackThursday and a #LatestDonation! 🌞
We’re exploring our recently donated Sun SPARCstation Coyager, introduced in 1994. Here’s a look at the Voyager from the inside, as our volunteers inspect this fascinating “nomadic” UNIX workstation. 🔧🖥️
We’re exploring our recently donated Sun SPARCstation Coyager, introduced in 1994. Here’s a look at the Voyager from the inside, as our volunteers inspect this fascinating “nomadic” UNIX workstation. 🔧🖥️
September 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
The Centre for Computing History has a Sun SPARCstation Voyager on the bench… it’s a 1994 attempt at a workstation you could carry (“luggable”?), and a reminder that portable UNIX was once a radical proposition.
SPARCstation *Voyager 🫠
September 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
SPARCstation *Voyager 🫠
It’s #ThrowbackThursday and a #LatestDonation! 🌞
We’re exploring our recently donated Sun SPARCstation Coyager, introduced in 1994. Here’s a look at the Voyager from the inside, as our volunteers inspect this fascinating “nomadic” UNIX workstation. 🔧🖥️
We’re exploring our recently donated Sun SPARCstation Coyager, introduced in 1994. Here’s a look at the Voyager from the inside, as our volunteers inspect this fascinating “nomadic” UNIX workstation. 🔧🖥️
September 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
It’s #ThrowbackThursday and a #LatestDonation! 🌞
We’re exploring our recently donated Sun SPARCstation Coyager, introduced in 1994. Here’s a look at the Voyager from the inside, as our volunteers inspect this fascinating “nomadic” UNIX workstation. 🔧🖥️
We’re exploring our recently donated Sun SPARCstation Coyager, introduced in 1994. Here’s a look at the Voyager from the inside, as our volunteers inspect this fascinating “nomadic” UNIX workstation. 🔧🖥️
If you ever pass by here on the close by E4 road I'll throw you a Sparcstation 5. 😁
September 7, 2026 at 9:38 PM
If you ever pass by here on the close by E4 road I'll throw you a Sparcstation 5. 😁
Mini live ce soir
Mais on va redémarrer la SparcStation-20 suite à l'installation de Solaris 2.5.1 !
Si ça t'intéresse, c'est sur twitch ou sur youtube, les liens sont dans le commentaire !
Mais on va redémarrer la SparcStation-20 suite à l'installation de Solaris 2.5.1 !
Si ça t'intéresse, c'est sur twitch ou sur youtube, les liens sont dans le commentaire !
September 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Mini live ce soir
Mais on va redémarrer la SparcStation-20 suite à l'installation de Solaris 2.5.1 !
Si ça t'intéresse, c'est sur twitch ou sur youtube, les liens sont dans le commentaire !
Mais on va redémarrer la SparcStation-20 suite à l'installation de Solaris 2.5.1 !
Si ça t'intéresse, c'est sur twitch ou sur youtube, les liens sont dans le commentaire !
Pour des raisons bien indépendantes de ma volonté, et suite à un petit micmac d'emplois du temps, je ne pourrai pas faire le live ce soir. On en fera un court dimanche soir par contre car je me lève tôt lundi.
La SparcStation 20 attend impatiemment de redémarrer sous vos yeux !
La SparcStation 20 attend impatiemment de redémarrer sous vos yeux !
September 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Pour des raisons bien indépendantes de ma volonté, et suite à un petit micmac d'emplois du temps, je ne pourrai pas faire le live ce soir. On en fera un court dimanche soir par contre car je me lève tôt lundi.
La SparcStation 20 attend impatiemment de redémarrer sous vos yeux !
La SparcStation 20 attend impatiemment de redémarrer sous vos yeux !
you gotta do what to make a sparcstation y2k compliant......
August 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
you gotta do what to make a sparcstation y2k compliant......
Hey, I'm not *that* old - 1972. I first got "proper" online, using a Sun SparcStation in a lab I wasn't supposed to be in, in 1989. Before that, I had an Amiga 500, then 1200, and used Dial-up modems to get online.
August 20, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Hey, I'm not *that* old - 1972. I first got "proper" online, using a Sun SparcStation in a lab I wasn't supposed to be in, in 1989. Before that, I had an Amiga 500, then 1200, and used Dial-up modems to get online.
RETVRN to 1990s prices. I paid $3500 for my PowerMac 7200 in 1995, and about $10k for a minimally configured SparcStation 3 the same year. Now do the inflation conversion.
August 19, 2026 at 7:30 AM
RETVRN to 1990s prices. I paid $3500 for my PowerMac 7200 in 1995, and about $10k for a minimally configured SparcStation 3 the same year. Now do the inflation conversion.
In the 90s I had a SPARCstation 'pizza box' PC that was worth about $10,000.
I picked it up dead for a few hundred and had a tech friend fix it for a couple hundred more.
It wasn't all that much faster than my Commodore Amiga but had far better graphics and LINUX was a far better OS than Amiga OS.
I picked it up dead for a few hundred and had a tech friend fix it for a couple hundred more.
It wasn't all that much faster than my Commodore Amiga but had far better graphics and LINUX was a far better OS than Amiga OS.
August 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
In the 90s I had a SPARCstation 'pizza box' PC that was worth about $10,000.
I picked it up dead for a few hundred and had a tech friend fix it for a couple hundred more.
It wasn't all that much faster than my Commodore Amiga but had far better graphics and LINUX was a far better OS than Amiga OS.
I picked it up dead for a few hundred and had a tech friend fix it for a couple hundred more.
It wasn't all that much faster than my Commodore Amiga but had far better graphics and LINUX was a far better OS than Amiga OS.
I’m sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Portland writing. A woman just walked down the street carrying an antique SPARCstation-20, an old-school Sun workstation, with a carnation on top of it, and you know, that’s only, like, the fifth or sixth oddest thing I’ve seen this week.
August 13, 2026 at 1:39 AM
I’m sitting in a coffee shop in downtown Portland writing. A woman just walked down the street carrying an antique SPARCstation-20, an old-school Sun workstation, with a carnation on top of it, and you know, that’s only, like, the fifth or sixth oddest thing I’ve seen this week.
Medley Interlisp running on my SPARCstation 10, using Sun Pixrect instead of X11
August 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Medley Interlisp running on my SPARCstation 10, using Sun Pixrect instead of X11
以後もSPARCstation 2・10・20やエンタープライズ向けサーバー「Sun Enterprise」シリーズが展開され、UNIXワークステーション・サーバー市場でヒューレット・パッカード のPA-RISC やIBM のPOWER と激しく競合し
August 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
以後もSPARCstation 2・10・20やエンタープライズ向けサーバー「Sun Enterprise」シリーズが展開され、UNIXワークステーション・サーバー市場でヒューレット・パッカード のPA-RISC やIBM のPOWER と激しく競合し
■Sunワークステーションへの採用
1987年（昭和62年）7月出荷の「Sun-4/260」を皮切りに、Sun Microsystems はモトローラ68000系からSPARCへと自社ワークステーションの心臓部を切り替えた。1989年（昭和64年）には小型・低価格化した「SPARCstation 1」を発売し、「ピザボックス」型の筐体と手頃な価格でSPARC搭載機を大きく普及させた。
1987年（昭和62年）7月出荷の「Sun-4/260」を皮切りに、Sun Microsystems はモトローラ68000系からSPARCへと自社ワークステーションの心臓部を切り替えた。1989年（昭和64年）には小型・低価格化した「SPARCstation 1」を発売し、「ピザボックス」型の筐体と手頃な価格でSPARC搭載機を大きく普及させた。
August 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
■Sunワークステーションへの採用
1987年（昭和62年）7月出荷の「Sun-4/260」を皮切りに、Sun Microsystems はモトローラ68000系からSPARCへと自社ワークステーションの心臓部を切り替えた。1989年（昭和64年）には小型・低価格化した「SPARCstation 1」を発売し、「ピザボックス」型の筐体と手頃な価格でSPARC搭載機を大きく普及させた。
1987年（昭和62年）7月出荷の「Sun-4/260」を皮切りに、Sun Microsystems はモトローラ68000系からSPARCへと自社ワークステーションの心臓部を切り替えた。1989年（昭和64年）には小型・低価格化した「SPARCstation 1」を発売し、「ピザボックス」型の筐体と手頃な価格でSPARC搭載機を大きく普及させた。