Elefant

Elefant ist my fastest Sun3 in the collection, a Sun 3/470. The CPU is a 68030 at 33 MHz, accellerated by a 64 kByte 2nd level cache. This yields more than double the speed of a Sun 3/60. The machine is placed in a 12-slot VME-Bus chassis.

The front flap can be opened to access the device compartments.

The left compartment contains an Exabyte 8200 tape drive (2.3 GB) and the right compartment contains a CDC Wren IV SCSI hard disk (300 MB).

The following cards are in Elefant:

(empty)
32 MB Memory (original Sun)
(empty)
Sun 3400 CPU
(covered by the CPU)
Sun2 SCSI controller
(empty)
Ciprico Rimfire 3200 SMD Controller
(empty)
second ethernet controller
(empty)
(empty)

Some weeks ago i got a disk tower simillar to the 3/470 chassis. I put all my SMD hard drives into it: Two Seagate Sabre ST81236J (1 GB), one Fujitsu M2372 Swallow III (670 MB) and a CDC-9720-850 (670 MB, unfortunately only half of the capacity is usable).

Earlier i ran Elefant in an old Sun 3/260 chassis. There were two Seagate ST1236J SMD disks (1 GB) connected to the Rimfire.

Stations of the machine

Day of Birth: 18.12.1989
Since 1990 mail and news server of the local computer centre of the university of Kaiserslautern, Germany (sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de)
Since 1994: Parts (CPU, Memory, SCSI) run by Peter Koch in a 3/260 chassis (simmern.informatik.uni-kl.de)
Since Sep. 1995 private machine of Peter Koch at the german research centre for artificial intelligence (DFKI) (exot-207.dfki.uni-kl.de)
Since Nov. 1996 Internet gateway of the Pirmasenser Zeitung (limes.pz.pirmasens.de), a daily newspaper in Germany
Jul. 1999: Got the original chassis of the 3/470 and plugged everything back
Since 1/6/2000: Retirement (elefant.pz.pirmasens.de)
I had planned to retire the machine in 1999, but i was curious if it would do its way into 2000. It did and it did bravoureous!