skahn@violet.berkeley.edu (Acct. of Prof. Steve Kahn) (03/17/90)
Thanks to all who sent me mail about sun 2 power supply repair, sun 2 parts in general, and upgrades of sun 2 to 4.x. I've listed the 3 places that people mentioned for sun 2 service and parts below. I received a lot of mail about sun 2 upgrades to 4.x, but just about no one recommended it. we have purchased a cannibalized power supply from an outfit in the CS department here on the U.C. Berkeley campus. actually, i guess it's technically from U.C.B. salvage. when we replaced the p.s., the sun 2 came back up as normal. about *tip* problems: no one seemed to know for sure why this happened. maybe there is a bug in one of the boards. our hardware guys here think it might be a pickup problem. some people suggested using the sun 2 simple as an X-term. anyway, so long and thanks for the fish. jon schachter summary of info. on sun 2 service: outfit specialty location phone ****** ********* ******** (contact) Apex fixes suns Redmond, WA 206-867-4500 & parts Minicomputer Exchg. sun 2 parts Sunnyvale, CA 408-733-4400 (Brandon) Pinnacle Data Sys. fixes sun 2s, Columbus, OH 614-487-1150 sun 2 parts (John, Dan) * * Jon Schachter * * Cook by day * * * Astronomer by night (Regulus) Berkeley NETMAIL: jon@xal.berkeley.edu