Very excited - delivery came yesterday with an original set of #SunOS 4.0.3 tapes for the #SPARCstation 1! I'll have to repair the broken bands, and here's hoping for no bitrot, or that someone overwrote them over the years 😬

I recently read Tae Kim's (wwww.taekim.com) new book, 'The Nvidia Way'; it's a great and inspiring read. A thing of interest for me was the in-depth background on the pre-Nvidia years of Jensen, Curtis and Chris at LSI and Sun, in particular their work on the SunGX Graphics Accelerator. 1/7

It's SPARCstation Saturday, so with kind of edutainment, kind of a PSA, here goes:

These are the SPARCstation lunchboxes (minus the ZX, which I'll get to in a minute). If you have one of these, you can probably still save it from an untimely demise. 1/10

Restoring an original SunCD Drive, a thread:

So it looks like I bought this beauty back in 2023, in a combo with a SPARCclassic, 1/9