Restorations of larger and less common Unix workstations from Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and NeXT. These include tower systems, lunchbox-form machines like the SPARCstation IPC and IPX, and oddities like the battery-powered SPARCstation Voyager. Each article covers the acquisition, repair, and day-to-day use of these machines.
Workstations
Restorations of vintage Unix workstations from Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and NeXT
Sun SPARCstation IPC
The first lunchbox SPARCstation, woken up after sitting idle since January 1995
Sun SPARCstation IPX
The second-gen lunchbox with a Weitek W8701 — still the workstation in the collection that feels most like 1991 while staying usable
Silicon Graphics Indigo R4400
The teal R4400 cube with Elan Graphics, peerless in hardware-accelerated 3D in its day
Silicon Graphics Indy
The R5000 multimedia workstation that shipped with the IndyCam — the first computer with a video camera in the box
NeXTstation Color
The cube Tim Berners-Lee used at CERN to write the first web server and browser, brought back with the proprietary Sound Box and its custom Y-cable
SuperWorkstation SW-40S (SPARCstation 2 Clone)
A third-party SPARCstation 2 clone board turned into a display piece and SBus test bench
Sun SPARCstation Voyager
Sun's 1994 portable UNIX workstation, revived with a modern 12.1" panel after the original active-matrix LCD failed