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What does HN suggest? Another hobby? Some Sun swag instead? Biting the bullet and buying what you want? I mean the specifics of this isn't something where wha
by brudgers 4y ago
What does HN suggest?
Another hobby? Some Sun swag instead? Biting the bullet and buying what you want?
I mean the specifics of this isn't something where what works for me is going to work for you. And vice versa. It's your nostalgia, your money, and your time.
To me, it looks like a tinkering hobby. There are lots of things to tinker on. Sun workstations look like one where getting stuff to work smoothly or run at all is a rabbit hole of eBay searches without the wealth to just buy whatever you want.
It's premium GAS or parts collecting with finding replacement custom ASIC's and soldering bad caps on disc controllers. Sun workstations aren't C64's or even Amigas.
- rlawson 4y agoGood point on supporting the complexity of these devices. As I did some research realized that's more headache than I want. What I ended up doing was buying mint Java workstation since it has cool Java logo on front and nice big Sun Microsystems on side of case. Plus it has a roomy case that isn't too hard to retrofit. I am gutting it and putting in modern parts.