On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:55, steve ulrich wrote: > when last we saw our hero (Monday, Oct 13, 2003), > Bruce Broecker was madly tapping out: > > I've got a pair of Sparc drive sleds out of a Sparcstation 20. Will > > those work for you? > > > > As for the video card, I know that the Sparc will boot to the serial > > console if there is no keyboard or mouse connected, so I would have > > to assume that the same would apply if no video card is present. > > a sparc is perfectly happy without a video card. there are those > (myself included) who would argue that you shouldn't run a sparc any > other way. ;-) What? You don't like being restricted to 8-bit color? (yeah, I know there are better framebuffers out there, but pseudocolor displays were the most common in my college experiences with Sun machines) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Stick: A boomerang that / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ doesn't work. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20031014/1ade8059/attachment.pgp