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6 Replies to “Lovely”

  1. Dude!
    I just res­cued a
    Dude!

    I just res­cued a Plex­tor PX-32T­Si (CD-ROM) and a Ricoh MP6200S (CDRW) from the garbage cans I put out for pick­up tomor­row. Both SCSI, obvi­ous­ly. They’re yours if they’ll work for ya.

  2. Wow! Thank you!
    Wan­na go
    Wow! Thank you!

    Wan­na go run­ning on this side of the Bay soon?

    I can meet you down­town almost any day in the next two weeks.

  4. Run­ning? Not for a while,
    Run­ning? Not for a while, let me get some carbs back into me. 🙂

    I’ll bring the CD-ROMs into work on wednes­day, we can arrange some time dur­ing the day to do the pick­up. Is there any oth­er IBM hard­ware that will work on an SGI?

  5. I real­ly don’t know what
    I real­ly don’t know what will work.

    I guess I should have spec­i­fied though: I need CD-ROMs with a 50-pin con­nec­tor. I’m hop­ing that oth­er than that a SCSI CD-ROM is just a SCSI CD-ROM and will work anywhere.

    Some­day I might look for a pen tablet for this. It looks like the tablet port uses an old Apple ser­i­al con­nec­tor, so I think the old old Wacom tablets will work. I think I need to wor­ry about get­ting an Oper­at­ing Sys­tem on it first.

  6. Well, Suns used to use the
    Well, Suns used to use the same 50 pin rib­bon cable, but they used a dif­fer­ent sec­tor size. Toshi­ba, who OEMed the CDROMs for Sun sold some with a jumper to switch between Sun and Every­one Else. Old Apple CD-ROM dri­ves used the same sec­tor size.

    My old 2x read/1x burn Toshi­ba burn­er taught me the val­ue of a) uni­ver­sal­ly sup­port­ed hard­ware and b) patience. But, I burnt dozens of CDs on my Sparc 2 with­out mak­ing one coaster.

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