SPARCStation 4

Posted on March 26, 2004, 10:03, by glendale2x, under Computers.

I currently have a Sun SPARCStation 4 sitting in my room. Of course, the unique monitor connection makes it impossible for me to fire it up without an adapter. eBay should have one. Once I have one of those, I should be able to turn it on and see if it works and stuff.

One Comment

  1. John says:
    April 28, 2004 at 10:44

    You should be able to hook up a Serial Cable with a Null Modem adapter to port A on the sparc and fire it up.

    Make sure the Sun Keyboard is unplugged from the Sparc when you do this , The Keyboard is what triggers the onboard video/keyboard instead of Serial.

    You will be able to access both Open Firmware and whatever OS is installed on the Sparc if it has a OS present.

    BTW, The Video Adapter you purchase may not let you use your Sparc 4 with all monitors, Sun uses non PC/Mac video resolutions and not all monitors can support them.

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