Free Sun 3/470 (sun3x) stuff

Jeremy Cooper <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:17:00 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mvme68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have the parts to a full 3/470 "Pegasus" machine ready to give away or 
it will have to be recycled. I never got a chance to learn all the names 
of these pieces, nor their exact part numbers. They include:

* A 12-slot desk-side 9U (three connector) VME chasis. It is not the
   original Sun chasis, it's a clone.

* About five memory boards.

* 3/470 "3400" main CPU board

* A couple of SCSI boards

* A color framebuffer board.

There are a couple of interesting feature on this sun3x machine that never 
made it into NetBSD: the block copy accelerator and the page-zeroing 
accelerator. It would be great if some kind NetBSD developer could take 
this machine and use it to incorporate support for these devices into 
NetBSD/sun3x, but I will gladly give the machine, or parts, to anyone who 
asks.

The machine is located in the Northern San Francisco Bay Area. I can drive 
the chasis around the Bay Area (but no further). The boards, which are 
perhaps more rare, still have their most recent shipping boxes and 
packaging. These I will ship to anywhere in the US or Canada for free.

If you aren't interested in this hardware but know someone who might be, 
please forward this message to them.

Thanks!
-Jeremy