The Backroad to Civilization

Retrochallenge 2024

Here we are, 21 days later.

My Sparcstation IPX is toast. I found a bit of time this week to

dedicate to fixing my favourite Unix box, so I dug it up from the bowels

of the lab and popped it on my desk...

... and promptly went back into the lab to find either a *%^$*&%^$&*^

13W3-to-SVGA video adapter or my mini-din to RS232 serial cable so I could

see what the Hell I'm doing. I found a handful of 13W3 adapters and

tested a couple out, remembering that some were for my Sparcstations and

some were for the SGI machines I used to own. Found my Sun Type-4

keyboard, optical mouse, and reflective metal mouse pad, too.

All rendered moot when the IPX failed to power on.

Yup. PSU is dead.

So, that's me done for this Retrochallenge. I'm not going to have time to

troubleshoot the PSU this weekend, so I'll just have to call this one

complete with my successful Powerbook Duo 280c restore.

Speaking of which, here's the newly-restored Duo streaming Anonradio!

Good luck to the rest of you!