SUN SPARCstation 1+



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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME GOBLIN
SYSTEM CPU SUN SPARC 4/65 @25MHz 
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 64 KB, 0 KB / 0 KB
RAM  64 MB  (Max. 64 MB)
SCSI BUS 1 x SCSI (5 MB/s)
OPTION BUS SBUS, 3 slots 
GRAPHICS 8-plane 1152x864 @66Hz
HARD DISK DRIVE 560 MB 4500 RPM Seagate
CD-ROM DRIVE SUN 411 External
NETWORK 10 Mbit AUI
AUDIO Onboard audio chip
OS SUN Solaris 2.4
YEAR 1990
SPEED 16 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS Openwin in Solaris 2.4 is very slow. It was obviously built to run some older SunOS version. It has plenty of RAM, but this doesn't seem to help.
ESTIMATED PRICE '90 $40,000

History and other comments

My brother acquired three of these machines,  I got this one. I don't have much information about its origin, but I do know it was used in a NIS network (i.e. other SUN boxes were involved) and it was first purchased by a midium sized Finnish company (in Finland).

I tried to get more speed out of it by adding the maximum amount of RAM (it takes 1 MB or 4MB 30 pin PC SIMMs) but for some reason it just seems too slow for any use. It would, however, perform very well when I tried some file transferring through it's ethernet interface (ftp). This is box was appearantly meant for 24/7 heavy network load. A good feature is that it has really low power consumption.

Update: I no longer own this system. It was sold in October 2002.

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Last updated:  14-7-2004