SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation - construction and maintenance shots. Pictures taken 2001-04-25 on the MIT W92 kitchen table.
Rear view, showing power, fans, and connectors.
4 USB, 1 Ethernet (RJ45, 10/100), 2 Firewire, VGA, DB9 Serial, DB25 Parallel, audio, and 3 PCI card slots.
Front view - cdrom, floppy, smartcard reader.
Bottom view - feet, mounting slots.
As with the Netra X1, detailed internal assembly instructions printed on the inside of the cover.
Closeup of internal instructions.
Motherboard, on slide-out metal tray. Hard to guess that it isn't a PC motherboard, given the number of traditional PC chips and the fact that the CPU is obscured by the heatsink. Rear connectors on the right, memory at the top left, edge connector for backplane on bottom edge.
Backplane with motherboard disengaged. 3 PCI slots, various drive ribbons.
Rear of fan, floppy, smartcard reader; motherboard completely removed.
Drive bay, locked.
Drive bay unlocked - spring-loaded bar slides up, lower lever slides out. Unfortunately doesn't help with the ribbon and power cable, which are very stiff.
The drive itself.
The drive bay sans drive; Note that cdrom is on the same bus, though there also appears to be another bus connector available.
Closeup of backplane - PCI slots, 2 IDE buses, motherboard slot, J1 connector, jumpers.
Closeup of other half of backplane - keyboard jumpers, "grover" label, smartcard reader and floppy ribbons and power
One PCI blank tab and cover plate removed. Note spring bits, presumably to increase shielding value of tabs.
PCI full-size card end-clip in "locked" position.
PCI full-size card end-clip in "unlocked" position.
Closeup of floppy drive and smartcard reader, and soft power switch.
Closeup of CDROM drive. Note conventional screw mount on right side.
Closeup of labels on smartcard reader.
Closeup of labels on CDROM drive.
Closeup of labels on power supply.
Closeup of PCI slot labels and rear fan.
End view of front cover-plastic (showing system s/n and config, and soft power switch)
Closeup of motherboard; more "grover" labels, IDPROM, jumpers.
Closeup of motherboard; more (duplicate) connector headers, various Lucent chips.
Closeup of motherboard; external connectors and RAGE XL (video?) chip.
Closeup of remainder of motherboard - memory (pc style) and CPU (beret clip and heatsink)
Closeup of CPU and PGA-370 ZIF socket, and battery. Still looks very PC-like.
Rear view, showing power, fans, and connectors.
4 USB, 1 Ethernet (RJ45, 10/100), 2 Firewire, VGA, DB9 Serial, DB25 Parallel, audio, and 3 PCI card slots.
Front view - cdrom, floppy, smartcard reader.
Bottom view - feet, mounting slots.
As with the Netra X1, detailed internal assembly instructions printed on the inside of the cover.
Closeup of internal instructions.
Motherboard, on slide-out metal tray. Hard to guess that it isn't a PC motherboard, given the number of traditional PC chips and the fact that the CPU is obscured by the heatsink. Rear connectors on the right, memory at the top left, edge connector for backplane on bottom edge.
Backplane with motherboard disengaged. 3 PCI slots, various drive ribbons.
Rear of fan, floppy, smartcard reader; motherboard completely removed.
Drive bay, locked.
Drive bay unlocked - spring-loaded bar slides up, lower lever slides out. Unfortunately doesn't help with the ribbon and power cable, which are very stiff.
The drive itself.
The drive bay sans drive; Note that cdrom is on the same bus, though there also appears to be another bus connector available.
Closeup of backplane - PCI slots, 2 IDE buses, motherboard slot, J1 connector, jumpers.
Closeup of other half of backplane - keyboard jumpers, "grover" label, smartcard reader and floppy ribbons and power
One PCI blank tab and cover plate removed. Note spring bits, presumably to increase shielding value of tabs.
PCI full-size card end-clip in "locked" position.
PCI full-size card end-clip in "unlocked" position.
Closeup of floppy drive and smartcard reader, and soft power switch.
Closeup of CDROM drive. Note conventional screw mount on right side.
Closeup of labels on smartcard reader.
Closeup of labels on CDROM drive.
Closeup of labels on power supply.
Closeup of PCI slot labels and rear fan.
End view of front cover-plastic (showing system s/n and config, and soft power switch)
Closeup of motherboard; more "grover" labels, IDPROM, jumpers.
Closeup of motherboard; more (duplicate) connector headers, various Lucent chips.
Closeup of motherboard; external connectors and RAGE XL (video?) chip.
Closeup of remainder of motherboard - memory (pc style) and CPU (beret clip and heatsink)
Closeup of CPU and PGA-370 ZIF socket, and battery. Still looks very PC-like.