Megatron-uk
Experienced Member
So this is the first time I've seen one of these - it's a Force SPARC-CPU-5V; according to the manual it's essentially a SS5 on a 1 to 2 slot 6U VME card.
I managed to pick it up cheap from a recent Ebay auction and hit lucky - it came with the optional SBUS frame, which stacks it from a single VME slot to twin, but also adding 2 SBUS slots, both of which where populated; one with a Sun HME fast ethernet/fast-wide SCSI2 card, as well as a TGX framebuffer.
Specs are a 110MHz Microsparc 2, 16MB onboard RAM + 64MB expansion. For all intents and purposes it's a Sparcstation 5.
I intend on bringing it back to life on a NOS Schroff 12 slot backplane I've also just sourced, then using it to drive and control a Transtech Transputer VME card that I've had sitting on my shelf for some 3-4 years. I may even add a 68060 Motorola MVME (running up to date NetBSD) as a slave to the same enclosure at some point.
OS will be Solaris 2.6, since it's the only one with a device driver for the Transputer VME board.
I managed to pick it up cheap from a recent Ebay auction and hit lucky - it came with the optional SBUS frame, which stacks it from a single VME slot to twin, but also adding 2 SBUS slots, both of which where populated; one with a Sun HME fast ethernet/fast-wide SCSI2 card, as well as a TGX framebuffer.
Specs are a 110MHz Microsparc 2, 16MB onboard RAM + 64MB expansion. For all intents and purposes it's a Sparcstation 5.
I intend on bringing it back to life on a NOS Schroff 12 slot backplane I've also just sourced, then using it to drive and control a Transtech Transputer VME card that I've had sitting on my shelf for some 3-4 years. I may even add a 68060 Motorola MVME (running up to date NetBSD) as a slave to the same enclosure at some point.
OS will be Solaris 2.6, since it's the only one with a device driver for the Transputer VME board.