Sun Ultra 20 produced in 2007 can't really be described as retro, more like obsolete hardware. Nevertheless as I've never seen a Sun workstation before or used one I grabbed this unit with me for 20 euros at a flea market. Short history lesson: Sun (Standford University Network) was and American company founded in 1982. It produced and contributed on wide range of software and hardware such as SPARC processor architecture, Java programming language, Solaris, UNIX, RISC, virtualized computing and so on. In 2005 Sun released Ultra 20 workstation moving towards x86-64 architecture. In 2008 Sun released it's last SPARC architecture workstations. In 2009 Oracle acquired Sun and a year after that released it's last workstation ever, concluding it's history as a workstation vendor. On September 2, 2017, Simon Phipps reported that Oracle had laid off the Solaris core development staff. Ultra 20: What's on the outside? Manufacturing quality of Ultra 2
This is one of my Macintosh findings from a local recycling center, a Performa 475 'pizza box' computer for 15 euros (about 18 USD). As you can see this unit is in great conditions, and I actually wasn't able to find even single scratch on the body. It came without a keyboard or a mouse but luckily I was able to find few keyboards, mice and vga-adapters (DB-15 to VGA) from apple community forum for a decent price about 5-10 euros a piece (that's about 5 to 12 USD). I just wonder how it was able to survive all these years without a single scratch. Someone really cared for this unit. Look inside Opening the cover of this mac is really easy, just snap those clips open from the back and the cover pops off. As you can see there's Motorola 68LC040 processor with 25Mhz. I think the amount of ram is more than factory default 8 Megabytes (Just can't tell how much). SCSI hard-drive is whopping 160 megabytes. There's a 3.5 inch floppy-drive and all the