May 16, 2025

Sun 3/280

Like the 3/160, this is a huge (15 by 16 inch) VME board.

To run one of these, you need a second board with memory, there is no RAM on the main board. I typically use a 16M ECC memory board and run the two boards in an old sun 3/110 case.

Mine has been sitting for about 10 years gathering dust. I recently got interested in it, because I was working on a disassembly of the Sun 3/60 bootrom. These Sun 3 roms have a lot in common and I felt it might be helpful to actual run one and poke at it. I also have a growing interest in booting and running code.


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Tom's Computer Info / tom@mmto.org