I remember a friend showing me photos from someone who shot a sparcstation and proved they were literally bulletproof. I can’t find them now though.
I used 5s early in my career, and I can't recall a single failure. I very much miss Sun hardware.
Why do you have 40 Sparcstation 5s? Very curious.
I am a hoarder of things that work forever. I have 1000s of old computers that all work. I love this tech that I can solder… oldest one is from 1963.
Oh man, err, person, that reminds me that I need to fix my SparcStation Voyager, whose 2.5" SCSI drive broke. I do have a 2.5" SCSI2SD already, and I also have install media, but it always seems like too much effort. Lovely machine, though.
Anyhow, in the late 90s I was given an SS10 (?) clone made by Axil, which was my main driver for a year or so, running RedHat for Sparc.
Do you have a list of such "bulletproof" computers youd recommend for a rainy day project?