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Sun SunScreen SPF-100

[Really bad picture of the Sun SunScreen SPF-100]

Specifications

MANUFACTURER  Sun Microsystems
MODEL  SunScreen SPF-100
YEAR OF INTRODUCTION  1995
MAIN PROCESSOR  microSPARC II
BITS  32
CLOCK SPEED  100 MHz
FLOATING POINT UNIT  integrated
MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT  integrated
CO-PROCESSOR  none
RAM  96M
ROM  ?
OPERATING SYSTEM  NeXTstep 3.3
HONOURABLE MENTION  Leon Martin

spunkrock

This is pretty much a SPARCstation 5 which Sun Microsystems sold as a firewall and rebadged as a SunScreen SPF-100. It originally had a nice chunky LEO 24-bit accelerated graphics card which NeXTstep, unfortunately, didn't support so I replaced it with a CG6 accelerated 8-bit framebuffer instead. A bit of a bummer but at least it now works.

I named the machine 'spunkrock' as a result of listening to too much Man.

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