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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!mri!woolsey
- From: woolsey@mri.com (Jeff Woolsey)
- Subject: Re: Any experiences with Sparc 1 upgrades from "Super Workstation"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.190802.22371@mri.com>
- Organization: Microtec Research Inc., Santa Clara, CA
- References: <BzD3F4.Gwv@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:08:02 GMT
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- In article <BzD3F4.Gwv@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
- >I recently recieved a blurb from a company called "Super Workstation" who
- >sell a Sparc-2-compatible motherboard that replaces a SparcStation 1's
- >motherboard to upgrade it to SparcStation 2 performance. At $1400 (with
- >return of old board) it sounds like a very good deal. Has anyone out
- >there tried one of these?
-
- I've done this. The _only_ problem I've had so far is that I no longer get
- the nifty color logo from my GX board that I used to. I suspect replacing
- the boot PROM with a genuine Sun boot PROM would fix this "problem".
-
- The motherboard is supposed to be trace-for-trace compatible with a real
- SS2 motherboard, and the design is licensed from Sun, I believe.
-
- I wonder what SWS is doing with all those SS1 motherboards...
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