Nowadays small form factor computers are everywhere. Intel’s NUC from the early 2010’s, Apple launched the Mac Mini in the mid 2000s, and plenty more examples exist. Most big brands make tiny computers for office use that just take up 1L of space.
But back in the late 80s and early 90s, this was not that common. One of the earlier tiny computers was the Sun SPARCstation IPC, and a little later the Sun SPARCstation IPX.
Just another electronics blog received a SPARCstation IPX from a friend to repair.
After replacement of capacitors, the machine booted but there were still issues. Replacing the hard drive with a BlueSCSI was first off then using a Debian 3 install. And the battery backed RAM needed replacement with a battery holder hack.
Finally a Raspberry Pi Pico was used to convert PS/2 keyboard & mouse to the proprietary Sun connection standard.
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