jon4short

I get what you mean , Although most of this hardware was standard back in the day ... In regards to fixing the boards, our engineers have tried and finding specialists who can do it, is almost impossible. You're absolutely right, I was manufactured in 1993 .. We do have one engineer who does know how most of it works (because of the manuals and such handed over to him from the previous owners / operators, he was able to tell me that most of the software is written in C & Fortran.

Hi Guys, My company is looking to replace some aging Sun 3/E systems as the Coaxial & SCSI Ethernet Boards are failing and spares are hard to come by or none existent. So now I'm looking at the community of UNIX & Linux Hackers around to help out. Would like to replace the system with new hardware running BSD or Linux, but thinking about how we could interface the legacy ports and connectors. The Device all these machines are connected to is a Flight Safety B737-300 Flight Simulator. Most if not all of the cockpit parts are from a real aircraft, so most of these lagacy ports are there to adapt it to the tech of the time (Some of which are from 1988). I will checkout whatever you awesome guys have sent me thus far. As we see it, this machine has another year or so if the parts hold up. The manufacturer wants an insane amount of money to update the whole system to just 2 racks with 2-3 modern machines (Mostly running Linux now), we're trying to find a solution that enables us to run Video Tour : https://youtu.be/GtmpFWxo_aA Flight Simulator : This is the Flight Safety (Manufacturer) B737-300 Flight Simulator manufactured in 1991. We use for Flight Training, many airlines from the Asian and African sector still operate these Aircrafts. https://ibb.co/mvtYSmc https://ibb.co/4t9zHRh https://ibb.co/mBXv4Rs Host Sun 0 Machine : This has the main OS on it with whatever applications are needed to run the IOS Software (Instructor Operating Station) Host_1 : https://ibb.co/tL5KMhj Sun Micro 501-8027 3/E Ethernet/SCSI Card aka the Ethernet Board that has failed : https://ibb.co/NZh58ZP https://ibb.co/48sVJYV https://ibb.co/0yJwwwJ https://ibb.co/stdWJ8g https://ibb.co/jLKBqpK Client Sun Machine : The images below are for a client machine of sorts, It connects to a Host machine (also Solaris Based using the Sun 3/E and Motorola Chassis) and gets an IP Address of sorts to link the two machines using the 501-8027 Cards. It is connected to 2 Touchscreens which allow the Flight Instructor to control various parameters of the simulation (Weather, Aircraft Failures etc) Client_1 :https://ibb.co/chythzG Client_2 : https://ibb.co/NyW3xjq Client_3 : https://ibb.co/4dwV673 Concurrent Machine running OS/32 for Boeing Logic : https://ibb.co/Vvg2v58 https://ibb.co/8svsVSs https://ibb.co/GcnFn90 https://ibb.co/W2v5F6R https://ibb.co/S0MD7Sj https://ibb.co/LRYVgn9 https://ibb.co/qdBqSkN https://ibb.co/j5Yj3xs https://ibb.co/r5zKSW6 https://ibb.co/ccWpTSC https://ibb.co/bJN7jJg https://ibb.co/j5X1mDq https://ibb.co/KNYMjM6 https://ibb.co/dLN6Jjf Terminal : https://ibb.co/jyzGwGB https://ibb.co/8BBcBSc MVME Rack : This seems to handle most of the Boeing Logic as well, on the Ground floor there is a rack with 15 of these Motorola MVME 133XT Cards controlling various parameters of the Hydraulic Motion System, Control Loading etc. https://ibb.co/d6DDNZg https://ibb.co/zbWDHXs https://ibb.co/cJhJR2D

For the love of gaming Nintendo move to x86 ... It'll be a million times cheaper (exaggeration) ... And one more thing involve the developers in the hardware picking ... If they're smart enough they'll learn from their mistakes and move over to x86 and keep a powerPC co-processor for backwards compatibility (Not sure if thats possible/Cheap/plausible with an x86 chip on board) ... seeing the next gen and their horrible sales an x86 console is in their minds ...