SUN 3/60 ("Ferrari" )



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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME COBOLD
SYSTEM CPU Motorola MC68020 @20 MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 0 KB, 0 KB / 256 Bytes
RAM  24 MB  (Max. 24 MB)
SCSI BUS 1 x SCSI (5 MB/s)
OPTION BUS N/A (no space in the box for extra cards)
GRAPHICS 8-plane 1152x900@66Hz and onboard mono frame buffer
HARD DISK DRIVE N/A
NETWORK 10 Mbps AUI
OS N/A
YEAR 1988
SPEED not measured VAX MIPS
COMMENTS So far I haven't booted up this system to any OS.
ESTIMATED PRICE '87 $30,000

History and other comments

This SUN 3/60 computer has a broken PSU. The mainboard should be OK, though.

If I ever want to use it I have to repair the PSU or I'll try connecting a peecee PSU to the mainboard. I've tried ther latter, but I had difficulties with getting enough current on -5V  DC. I measured the current drain to about 1.7 A, and a standard PC/AT PSU only has a 0.5 A voltage regulator for -5V DC. I replaced the regulator with another, a 1.5A 7905 but this was not enough. The system would work a couple of minutes and then fail, because the regulator becomes too hot and shuts down to protect itself from burning up.

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Last updated:  29-7-2008