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So I ended up being creative and modding my own 32MB sbus card. Like the OP said, it's a 1 to 1 deal.

Just for historic purposes, I'm sharing pictures I took with a 5D Mark IV of Computer Reset back in 2020, while I was a volunteer at the time with the cleanup crew. Note that the contents have since been sold and the building sold, so again, this is for historic purposes. I tried to take...

I don't know why, but I pulled the NVRAM, and I was able to get serial console - both the Sun and the Apple cable. Put the NVRAM back in, and it still worked. Why it didn't work the other night across several reboots and power-ons, I don't know. Either way, I did setenv ttya-mode and setenv...

Good question. I personally only know about CR, the Houston Museum, and the electronics/computer reseller I helped liquidate/close. I also bought a bunch of stuff from a gentleman in upstate New York in 2020 (fulfilled a bunch of my collection goals with that haul) - a friend of a friend's...

This place? No. Computer Reset - sometimes. Electronics Plus in Kerrville, TX? OH YES! I helped liquidate that, also in 2021 (mix of newer e-waste and some vintage stuff), and it was affected by burst pipes from the well publicized hard freeze we had in Texas in 2021. That place was NASTY. I...

Good to know. I have both a genuine Sun cable and some Apple cables. Tried both with no luck. I can't imagine 2.9 being that much different than what was on there before, but some NVRAM settings changing makes sense. I'll go through and see if anything looks awry. I've just heard that NetBSD...

That place was f**king nasty! Not as bad as CR, but still... and there was no forced air ventilation, added to the humidity and storms Houston sees that time of year. There were a few instances I had no lighting because of severe thunderstorms, and wished I'd brought in an industrial fan to at...

Actually - you've bought several things from me on ebay, and I think I asked you specifically if you wanted some of these. The problem is getting totes to put them in and take them to you in San Jose. I might make a trip to Nor Cal in the next few months, weather depending (I usually travel with...

I did, and I'm embarrassed to say that some of them got destroyed recently, when my dairy goats figured out how to breach that area. The original goal was to find someone to archive as much of them as possible. My late best friend and I didn't have the time/resources to do it ourselves. I still...

More like recovering for valuable materials, too. There are different degrees of it. I bought a lot of things for resale from a friend's business in California that did e-waste recycling. Got lots of treasures for my own collection, too, like some Lear Siegler ADM3 terminals (one works, the...

That's really hard to say. I was super happy to get the Sun 3/60's I'd bought there, as I'd been looking for one since I lost my own around 2004. Really, it was like the same treasure hunt at Computer Reset, though I probably spent more time there acquiring things than CR (despite being on the...

Oh, it's already long gone. I really wanted to go back one last time back in August 2021, but I got rear ended on my last trip by, well, we'll just say Florida Man and his female partner. That was a disaster - I was doing about 55 and was suddenly doing 63 when their Mercedes Sprinter hit me...

I think some photos were redundant, but I tried to take pictures of as much as I could. Yeah, loading up the trailer was f**king MISERABLE. I had to contend with 90%+ humidity and temps of 80-95 degrees during several thunderstorms - this building had NO air circulation. Couple that with a even...

I'm using both a Sun and an Apple 8 pin DIN to DB25 cable, and I'm not getting ANY serial output. It worked before, but the only change I did was upgrade the bootprom to 2.9. I have yet to try it with a lower/original bootprom. I can use the same null modem cable setup on an Ultra 5 and that...

Here we go! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/1wz1yvqvj7t4kbwwxxik3/AN6rPh-hdPescbVq9MlksCI?rlkey=1mej952v5wiuycdddfw7g33rk&dl=0 I did pick up the 3274 and eventually need to list it for sale. Also picked up a MIPS chassis that was supposed to be tossed (salvaged an SMD hard drive in the process)...

I need to figure out how I'm going to share these photos. I'll see if I can just share a dropbox link. I'm copying over 90+ photos from my phone. I didn't grab everything and I think I missed a few trailer loads. I had a lot of stuff in storage totes in my barn, of which 80% has since been moved...

I didn't realize this had a thread. I ended up bringing home about 6 or 7 trailers' worth of stuff from the Houston museum between July and August 2021. Some of it cost money, some were free. Got a TON of CRTs that I'd love to start selling that I rescued (and had to leave behind at least three...

Like the title says, I'm looking to buy any of these three items to upgrade some machines in my collection, ideally before VCF Southwest next month.

IPX power supplies seem to be weird. I recapped mine about a year ago. It worked, then it stopped working while showing it off at one of our club's quarterly meetups. Then it started working again when I brought it home, and hasn't failed since.

Now I just need to find a Multibus SCSI host adapter for my 2/120...