| Rear view
| Sm
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| Description :
| Rear view, showing power, fans, and connectors.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:08:00
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Connectors
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| 4 USB, 1 Ethernet (RJ45, 10/100), 2 Firewire, VGA, DB9 Serial, DB25 Parallel, audio, and 3 PCI card slots.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:08:19
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Front view
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Front view - cdrom, floppy, smartcard reader.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:08:44
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Bottom view
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Bottom view - feet, mounting slots.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:09:04
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Directions
| Sm
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| Description :
| As with the Netra X1, detailed internal assembly instructions printed on the inside of the cover.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:10:18
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Closeup of directions
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of internal instructions.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:10:37
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Motherboard
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| 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.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:11:12
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Backplane
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Backplane with motherboard disengaged. 3 PCI slots, various drive ribbons.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:12:08
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Fan + media drives
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Rear of fan, floppy, smartcard reader; motherboard completely removed.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:12:30
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Drive bay
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Drive bay, locked.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:12:44
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Drive bay unlocked
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| 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.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:15:03
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Drive
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| The drive itself.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:16:21
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Empty drive bay
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| The drive bay sans drive; Note that cdrom is on the same bus, though there also appears to be another bus connector available.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:16:46
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Backplane (closeup)
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of backplane - PCI slots, 2 IDE buses, motherboard slot, J1 connector, jumpers.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:17:12
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Backplane (closeup)
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of other half of backplane - keyboard jumpers, "grover" label, smartcard reader and floppy ribbons and power
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:17:20
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| PCI slot covers
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| One PCI blank tab and cover plate removed. Note spring bits, presumably to increase shielding value of tabs.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:18:12
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| PCI clips
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| PCI full-size card end-clip in "locked" position.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:20:17
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| PCI clips (unlocked)
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| PCI full-size card end-clip in "unlocked" position.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:20:32
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Media bays
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of floppy drive and smartcard reader, and soft power switch.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:20:55
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| CDROM
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of CDROM drive. Note conventional screw mount on right side.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:21:16
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Smartcard Reader
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of labels on smartcard reader.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:21:30
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| CDROM
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of labels on CDROM drive.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:22:14
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Power Supply
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of labels on power supply.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:22:38
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| PCI slots
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of PCI slot labels and rear fan.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:23:13
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Front cover
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| End view of front cover-plastic (showing system s/n and config, and soft power switch)
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:23:54
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Motherboard
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of motherboard; more "grover" labels, IDPROM, jumpers.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:28:51
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Motherboard
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of motherboard; more (duplicate) connector headers, various Lucent chips.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:29:17
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Motherboard
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of motherboard; external connectors and RAGE XL (video?) chip.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:29:37
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| Motherboard
| Sm
Med
Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of remainder of motherboard - memory (pc style) and CPU (beret clip and heatsink)
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:29:52
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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| CPU
| Sm
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Lg
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| Description :
| Closeup of CPU and PGA-370 ZIF socket, and battery. Still looks very PC-like.
| | Location :
| MIT W92, Cambridge, MA
| | Date :
| 25/04/2001 21:30:54
| | Event :
| Photodissection of SunBlade 100 "Grover" workstation
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