SPARC Workstation

Agent Buckshot Moose · 06-19-2011, 04:23 PM

So, I think I'm getting an old SPARC workstation soon for next to nothing. It's a Sun Blade 2000. Any idea what I should do with it? I already have a server with 1.5 TB of hard drive space serving media and a few other applications. I can't upgrade the space in this thing higher than 73 GB as far as I understand, although I haven't tested such yet.

Ideas I've had:
1. Set up a thin client network in my apartment (Why? Because I can.)
2. Use it as a secondary server for some of my other applications.
3. Programming SPARC applications. Not that it would be much different from programming x86 applications when it comes to my line of work...

**Dexter** · 06-20-2011, 12:01 AM

dang I'm jelly. Learn SPARC asm or port programs, SPARC programmers arent exactly dime a dozen (or in high demand heheh)

how about you sell it to me instead

Agent Buckshot Moose · 06-20-2011, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dexter

dang I'm jelly. Learn SPARC asm or port programs, SPARC programmers arent exactly dime a dozen (or in high demand heheh)

how about you sell it to me instead

Assembly has never really been a strong suit of mine, though I do want to play around with it. I may use it for that. Also perhaps as a playground for testing out new projects on different platforms. I generally stay as far away from C and friends as possible, but I'm considering writing something in C. But who knows...

**Dexter** · 06-21-2011, 03:06 AM

turn it into a serious workstation to program java on or something then. its a sparc, its not like you can do anything else with it :P

Agent Buckshot Moose · 06-21-2011, 03:26 AM

Oh I'll find something to do with it. Slightly more exotic ideas I've had:
1. Turn it into a tablet. This relies on cheap commercially available tablet enclosures (which don't exist). If they did exist, they probably wouldn't fit this hardware anyway.
2. Get a thin client tablet and use Sun Ray. They apparently exist, but are rather ... difficult to find.
3. Program a web app to access a remote desktop protocol and get a Chromebook once they are priced reasonably (assuming they don't die off) and pretend I have a thin client laptop.
4. Download a web app and do the second part of #3.

**Dexter** · 06-21-2011, 05:05 AM

5.) Sell to Dexter at cost ..

no seriously i want one since ages ago, know where I could get one for non eat-shit-on-the-internet prices?

06-19-2011, 04:23 PM	#1
Agent Buckshot Moose Wiki Standards Team Wiki Team Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Geokill's closet Class/Position: Sniper/Demoman Gametype: CTF Affiliations: :e0: Co-leader Posts Rated Helpful 6 Times	SPARC Workstation So, I think I'm getting an old SPARC workstation soon for next to nothing. It's a Sun Blade 2000. Any idea what I should do with it? I already have a server with 1.5 TB of hard drive space serving media and a few other applications. I can't upgrade the space in this thing higher than 73 GB as far as I understand, although I haven't tested such yet. Ideas I've had: 1. Set up a thin client network in my apartment (Why? Because I can.) 2. Use it as a secondary server for some of my other applications. 3. Programming SPARC applications. Not that it would be much different from programming x86 applications when it comes to my line of work...

06-20-2011, 12:01 AM	#2
Dexter internet user Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts Rated Helpful 42 Times	dang I'm jelly. Learn SPARC asm or port programs, SPARC programmers arent exactly dime a dozen (or in high demand heheh) how about you sell it to me instead

06-21-2011, 03:06 AM	#4
Dexter internet user Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts Rated Helpful 42 Times	turn it into a serious workstation to program java on or something then. its a sparc, its not like you can do anything else with it :P

06-21-2011, 03:26 AM	#5
Agent Buckshot Moose Wiki Standards Team Wiki Team Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Geokill's closet Class/Position: Sniper/Demoman Gametype: CTF Affiliations: :e0: Co-leader Posts Rated Helpful 6 Times	Oh I'll find something to do with it. Slightly more exotic ideas I've had: 1. Turn it into a tablet. This relies on cheap commercially available tablet enclosures (which don't exist). If they did exist, they probably wouldn't fit this hardware anyway. 2. Get a thin client tablet and use Sun Ray. They apparently exist, but are rather ... difficult to find. 3. Program a web app to access a remote desktop protocol and get a Chromebook once they are priced reasonably (assuming they don't die off) and pretend I have a thin client laptop. 4. Download a web app and do the second part of #3.

06-21-2011, 05:05 AM	#6
Dexter internet user Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts Rated Helpful 42 Times	5.) Sell to Dexter at cost .. no seriously i want one since ages ago, know where I could get one for non eat-shit-on-the-internet prices?

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