Recently I found a very neat piece of hardware - Sun-1 workstation. I just found it thrown away on the street (in Savion, if you are curious enough and understand Israeli topography). This is the first machine ever produced by Sun (in 1982) (and I think the first unix workstation at all?). To cite Sun Hardware Reference, "according to some sources, fewer than 200 Sun-1's were ever produced; they are certainly rare".

This box lacks any peripheral devices and has broken power supply (or at least I think so, as attempts to switch it on lead to short circuit in the whole house), and broken fan. Also the box itself is somewhat rusty (and very dirty). After it stayed for a week in the corner of our living room (to a big excitment of my wife), I have carefully disassembled it, and now it its current state.

As far as I understand, the first thing which should be done is solve the power supply problem (shouldn't be really a problem, as may be newer power suppliers will fit?). Then realize which kind of keyboard I need, get such keyboard, and try to boot monitor (or it is possible to do that only for later Sun models?). After that, I should find (on the streets of Savion, I guess, as I have no idea where else) external tape and external disk drive. I even don't speak about networking, as I have no idea whether it has a network card, and anyway, this seems to be far away for now... But my ambitious goal is to see this box in his whole glory happily working and networking with all my others computers...

So far I have found one owner of such a beast (not in working condition, as far as understand) which was very kind in providing me with some info (including that external disk drives - ones with SMD interface - are very rare).