another usb3sun tested and on its way to a customer!
got a #sparcstation with a dead nvram battery, or a missing keyboard or mouse? usb3sun lets you connect usb keyboards and mice to your sun workstation ☀️
Ran across this going through my old stuff. The pre-pre-pre-release docs for the SPARCstation-2 (Calvin). Was given to us lowly techs who were destined to debug them coming off the manufacturing line. When I started at Sun, I was a lowly failure analysis technician, the good jobs went to Stanford grads, DeVRY grads needed to come in through the back door. Eventually made my way into engineering and then SunLabs (where the real party was). #suntember#sparcstation#sparcstation2#sunw
@Iggi1968 The Sun Voyager took on a second life as a tablet computer prototype. A different team (in Sun Labs) took the design and mangled it into a tablet prototype.We called it R.O.V.E.R meaning Remote Operation of Vast Electronic Resources. Mosaic Browser was just about to come out and the pairing was obvious once we saw it. It was heavy, but ran an optimized version of SunOS and had a tethered pen input. Photos have more description.