SUN SPARCserver 1000

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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME	VISION
SYSTEM CPU	Dual SUN SuperSPARC @50MHz (sun4d)
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I)	1 MB, 0 KB / 8 KB
RAM	224 MB (Max. 2 GB?)
SCSI BUS	2 x SCSI (5 MB/s), 1 x Wide SCSI (20 MB/s)
OPTION BUS	SBUS, 3 slots, other CPU bus 3 slots
GRAPHICS	n/a
HARD DISK DRIVES	2 x 1 GB 5400 RPM Seagate Barracuda (internal), fiberchannel SSA w/ 16 x 2 GB 7200 RPM Seagate disks (external storage array)
CD-ROM DRIVE	SUNcd 2x SCSI
NETWORK	100 Mbit TP, 2 x 10 Mbit TP
AUDIO	n/a
OS	SUN Solaris 8
YEAR	1992
SPEED	(not measured) VAX MIPS
COMMENTS	It's a server system without graphics. This once was one of Sun's main server products in the beginning of the 90's.
PRICE '92 (base system only, w/o disk array)	$30,000

History and other comments

This server was picked up from a local Finnish company in September 2005. Evidently it had been running for about 13 years altogeather, because the plug was pulled only some days before the pickup. That kind of life span is a little longer than what one would expect from a mainstream Sun server. There is an explanation for it's quite long survival of this computer in the business world; it had been upgraded with both 100Mbps ethernet (hme0) and a fiber channel disk array (ssa0, i.e. SPARCstorage Array, it can be seen in the picture above) to cope with a heavier user load in 1996, I think. The serial console terminal on top of the server in the picture is a monochrome Wyse WY-55ES that came with the server.

From what I could tell the system had been dedicated to running Oracle database software on top of Solaris, and that's about it.

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Last updated:

1-10-2005