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Sun Ultra 10
Smiley

Main
 Co-Proc
Case
 Desktop
 *****
CPU
 Sparc 500
 AMD 400
RAM
 1 GB
 256 mb
HD
 2 x 120 GB
 Virtual 40
Video
 Raptor 8mb
 *****
Drives
 CD, Floppy
 *****
OS
 Solaris 10
 W2K Pro
Sound
 Sun
 SB16
Monitor
 15" VGA
 *****
Modem
None
 none
Network
 10/100
 10/100

Ultra Sparc CPU

Unix, and the Ultra 10 History and mods The Sun 375-0095 Solaris Links
    This is my second Sun machine, and my third SPARC machine. Smiley was purchased after some very bad experiences I had installing a Penguin card on Sparky. The card did not fit properly in the PCI riser, and needed to be rocked. It also came part way out of the slot, when I tightened the screw on the backplane. Eventually it killed something on the Sparky motherboard, and a new motherboard needed to be ordered. I had originally ordered Smiley, because the price was right, and he was a stripped down machine, having no hard drive. My plan was to use him as a parts machine for Sparky, to get a replacement motherboard, and strip out the ram. Smiley was actually cheaper than the cost of a new motherboard, and extra ram. I happened to have an old 120gb drive laying around the house, and Smiley was brought to life, in order to test all of the parts. Everything went so smoothly, and ran so well that I could not bring myself to kill Smiley, having brought him to life. Fortunately, a vendor was selling Sun Ultra motherboards pretty cheaply, so I ordered one to use in the ailing Sparky. I now have four Unix machines on my network.
    Smiley has led a harder life than Sparky, being quite scuffed up, and fairly dirty. Once I decided to keep this machine, I needed to give it a good cleaning. This along with the hard drives, a bit more memory, and installing the penguin card (successfully, this time), were all that was required. Smiley is now on my network, and is helping me to learn about clustering, and interconnection, between multiple Unix machines, and windows machines.
     Smiley is presently running Solaris 10, in 64 bit mode, as its main OS, and is also running Windows 2000 on its coprocessor card. I have Netscape, as well as Star Office on this machine. Though Smiley is a different machine, and is set up a bit differently, more details can be found on my page about Sparky. This page will be updated sometime this spring.
The Ultra Series
Model
 Case CPU RAM HD ** Video Drives Expansion Network Date
Ultra 5
 Desk top IIi 270-
400mhz
 4x168pin
512mb
 1xIDE
4.3 to 20
 8 or
24 bit
 CDRom
3.5"		 2.5 PCI
 10/100 01/01
Ultra 10
 Tower
 IIi 300-
440mhz
 4x168
1gb
 2xIDE
4.3 to 20
 24 bit
+ UPA
 CDRom
3.5"
 4 PCI
 10/100
 01/01
Ultra 30
 Tower
 II 300-
440mhz
 16x200
2gb
 2xSCSI
4.3 to 36
 2xUPA
 CDRom
3.5"
 4 PCI
 10/100
 02/99
Ultra 60
 Tower
 II 2x300-
450mhz
 16x200
2gb
 2xSCSI
4.3 to 36
 2xUPA
 CDRom
3.5"
 4 PCI
 10/100
 07/02
Blade 100
 Desktop
 IIi
500mhz
 4x168
2gb
 2xIDE
15 to 20
CDRom
3.5" card
 3 PCI
 10/100
Specs shown above are maximums.
**I have installed 120 gb drives (Maxtor & Seagate) on the Ultra 10, and Blade 100 models.