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The picture above shows a PC-AT style clone case, the label says "AT Olymp".
I originally got the machine from a friend whos parents wanted to toss it out. I ended up having to replace quite a number of the parts to restore it to working order. It originally would only boot sporadically until finally something near the cache card released magic smoke. A percussion cap had ejaculated inside the PSU. The machine orignally had 3 hard drives installed, all broken. Including a swappable one in a frame, hence the gaping hole in the 3rd drive slot.
It currently has a J-Bond A340C-H mainboard installed with an AM386DX, running at 44MHz, a bit faster than the 33MHz Intel 386DX on the original ECS 386S . The AMD CPU is a soldered on laptop variant, the Intel 387 from the original mainboard was transplanted.
The new mainboard has 8M of RAM installed and 128k of SRAM cache installed, similar to the old configuration.
Status: Technically working
TODO:
PSU replacement
A walk through the installed
components, new and replaced
The picture above shows a Sun Blade 100 that I got my hands on. Sun Blade is a series of UltraSPARC based workstations that Sun Microsystems started selling around the turn of the millennium. It apparently has nothing to do with blade servers.
Having grown up with only x86 based PCs (safe for occasionally seeing a PowerPC based Mac), I was eager on the chance to get started playing with SPARC hardware and the software ecosystem around it.
Status: I replaced the NVRAM battery, and stored a new MAC address, but haven't managed to boot anything yet. IDE seems wonky. OpenBoot can only occasionally see drives on the bus, but fails to boot, complaining the kernel image is broken.
TODO: RTFM, try to boot something via NFS.
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