time to upgrade the video card in my Sun SPARCstation 1+.
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anyway, setting up a new video card on a Sun machine is super easy and total jumperless! all you have to do is burn a new EPROM and solder some wires, then update your NVRAM config, and presumably some OS shenanigans, maybe recompiling a kernel or something lol.
so someone pointed out that the two crossed out names on the TurboGX card, CURTIS and CHRIS M, left Sun to found Nvidia!
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so someone pointed out that the two crossed out names on the TurboGX card, CURTIS and CHRIS M, left Sun to found Nvidia!
@tubetime Oh, shit, that Curtis! fun fact, Curis Priem was one of the designers of the IBM Professional Graphics Controller. The PGC was designed for IBM by Vermont Microsystems.
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so someone pointed out that the two crossed out names on the TurboGX card, CURTIS and CHRIS M, left Sun to found Nvidia!
@tubetime@mastodon.social i've been always wondering about that toilet paper thing.
"NVision" only returns factoids about nvidia. "envision" is an actual toilet paper brand
... did someone lose the game of telephone? I should figure out some citations and fix this...
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the new card is a TurboGX so i can get color graphics.
@tubetime I wish I hadn't gotten rid of my old Sun 3/60 decades ago. It was my daily driver between my Amiga 1000 and my first PC, a Pentium 90 running DOS (for Doom 2) and Yggdrasil Linux (for everything else). I had installed a GX framebuffer from a much larger Sun3 system, which was only (unofficially?) supported with the last ROM revision. I don't remember how I got the ROM image back then, but I remember it took DAYS to rebuild X11 with the acceleration support.
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@tubetime I wish I hadn't gotten rid of my old Sun 3/60 decades ago. It was my daily driver between my Amiga 1000 and my first PC, a Pentium 90 running DOS (for Doom 2) and Yggdrasil Linux (for everything else). I had installed a GX framebuffer from a much larger Sun3 system, which was only (unofficially?) supported with the last ROM revision. I don't remember how I got the ROM image back then, but I remember it took DAYS to rebuild X11 with the acceleration support.
@tubetime I had a 19" Sun CRT monitor for it, made by Hitachi IIRC. It was as big as a house, but only weighed as much as a car.
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so someone pointed out that the two crossed out names on the TurboGX card, CURTIS and CHRIS M, left Sun to found Nvidia!
ok figured out how to boot the system with the NVRAM issue. hit STOP-A, then type n, then type "boot disk" lol they simplified it so i don't need the whole sd(0,1,0) nonsense.
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ok figured out how to boot the system with the NVRAM issue. hit STOP-A, then type n, then type "boot disk" lol they simplified it so i don't need the whole sd(0,1,0) nonsense.
bam! and it's in color now.
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bam! and it's in color now.
now i can finally order my pizza.
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now i can finally order my pizza.
@tubetime I need this
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now i can finally order my pizza.
@tubetime sadly that Tony & Alba’s is long gone
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@tubetime sadly that Tony & Alba’s is long gone
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@tubetime sadly that Tony & Alba’s is long gone
@gco guess they moved from mountain view to west san jose
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@tubetime yes, it was on escuela near el Camino in Mountain View. They have a small section in this history: https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/life-of-pie-a-silicon-valley-pizza-history/
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@tubetime yes, it was on escuela near el Camino in Mountain View. They have a small section in this history: https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/life-of-pie-a-silicon-valley-pizza-history/
@tubetime pretty sure the fax number (!) in pizzatool is for the closed escuela location. Burritotool faxed the order to La Costeña. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897535
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now i can finally order my pizza.
@tubetime I hate when I accidentally order pizza using a black and white monitor, and it shows up with the weird grayscale cheese and black ichor
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my 13W3 Video Snake Oil (https://github.com/schlae/13W3) lets you wire up the adapter in a number of ways. on a hunch, let's try and wire pin 5 (CSYNC) up to the HSYNC on the VGA video connector.
@tubetime ooooh I hadn’t seen this adapter before. Thanks for sharing, I need a good solution for my NeXTStation.
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time to upgrade the video card in my Sun SPARCstation 1+.
@tubetime This is such an interesting machine, I know little about it and I'm wondering how the user experience would have been in the days with it's dedicated operating system.
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now i can finally order my pizza.
@tubetime This is so great! 🥰
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new PROM programmed and ready to go.
Let us know exactly what the Oracle lawyers accuse you of doing without a license.
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bam! and it's in color now.
@tubetime it's sun's openwindows environment I see judging from the widget style... Never owned a sun system, but we all have a tech debt to sun, for ha ing popularized and/or created many tools still in use today!
