Re: Any 3B1 alive?

On 2008-04-22, tenox <as@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well ... at the moment, I have a rack with a Sun Fire 280R, an
Exabyte 430 Mammoth-2 tape library, a Sun D-1000 JBOD full of SCA
drives, and a Criiterion/EMC Fibre Channel JBOD full of FC drives where
I use to have a table just big enough to support the 3B1 and the
external drive housing (modified from a 3B2 system). Things are really
too crowded to do much here. The system did run a bit less than a year
ago, before being moved into storage again.

That's nice. I have few 220/420R and 250/450 boxes lying around in
various places. They are quite nice. What I don't like though is where
SUN is going with the OS. But perhaps it's the only way to fight the
plague.

Well ... there are also several other OS's depending on your
tastes. I run OpenBSD on some of the systems, and the number of
possible systems has just increased with 4.3, because they now support
more than one SPARC CPU. I've got several machines which I will
probably try that on, with the Ultra 60 being the most likely first one.
The SB-1000s and the Sun Fire 280R are too busy actually *doing* things
under Solaris 10 to rip that out at present.

I hope that you get someone else who can do it for you.

I hope as well. I actually have two 7300 systems but they both DOA
with blown power supply. One day maybe someone will fix them up.

Hmm ... you know that you could splice in a PC XT or later power
supply if you are willing to run it opened up. The PS produces +5V,
+12V, and -12V -- all of which you can get from a PC power supply. You
could even run a cable out the power cord connector/fuse holder hole in
the case.

Hmm ... what happened to the power supplies? One failure which
I have seen in the past is overheating on one or two of the power pins,
causing the solder on the PC board to melt and either drip off or turn
into a cold solder joint. Clean the contacts and re-flow the solder
(perhaps with a bridge of solid copper wire on the underside of the
board) and you might bring the system back to life with an internal PS.
Unfortunately, the schematics for the PS are not available, making it
more difficult to fix a more serious problem.

Is there any chance that this program will require libs which
don't exist in the 3B1? One example of a simple program which can't be
compiled on the 3B1 is the "ping" net utility. It requires "utime()"
which is not supported in the 3B1 kernelj, so the ethernet utilities for
the 3B1 lack that -- and I wondered why and tried to compile from net
sources.

I don't think so. It did compile on quite few obscure systems around
already so I suspect there shouldn't be anything special required.

O.K. And I just compiled it on Solaris 10 using gcc. (Of
course, you can't compile it as a fully static program, since they don't
supply libc.a as a static lib -- only as a shared lib. :-(

And it complies nicely with the standard C compiler from their
fancy development set as well.

A pity I don't have a place to set up the 3B1.

And looking up your domain I get quite confused. ".tc" as the e-mail
domain for the administrator, but the supposed physical location being
in Vancouver BC Canada. And an IP block in Ireland? Very strange. And
more so the deeper I dig. :-)

You're still missing few countries, but I wouldn't scratch it too
much ;)

I stopped tracing after a while -- I was confused enough so
there was no point finding out anything else. :-)

What is this program supposed to do? If it has anything to do
with crypto I would have to pass even if my machine were sitting there
ready to turn on.

No I leave cryptography to those who are in need of it... just this:
http://www.tenox.tc/out/#aclock

A neat program.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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