Recently I got my first Sun SPARC workstation which paid for itself as I use it for maintaining 25 years old C++ Solaris 8 software for a customer. It is slower

Recently I got my first Sun SPARC workstation which paid for itself as I use it for maintaining 25 years old C++ Solaris 8 software for a customer. It is slower than the server machine but with maximum RAM it can run the full application and is very useful for quicker debugging. I also put an SSD on it but it did not improve the compile times: the full source code fits comfortably in RAM. With an XVR-500 I got from someone in Italy it even runs OpenGL applications nicely. I would have loved to have such a machine at the time when they were current, and although it takes room in my small apartment it does spark joy every day.