Anyone know much about SPARCs?

Factual Questions
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I have this old SPARC-1 (it looks like a pizza box) that a friend gave me. I would like to play around with it a bit, but I don’t know anything about Sun hardware.

The video port appears to be the same as the old-style Apple video ports, before they started to use VGA. If it is the same, I have an old Apple monitor that I can use with it. If it isn’t the same, is it possible to boot the thing through a serial terminal? The serial ports appear to be Apple-style as well.

I don’t know if any OS is installed on it or not. If not, is it possible to boot it with a SPARC Linux boot disk or something? If it is, I’ll just install Linux on it.

Oh, also, I need to find a keyboard that I can use with one of these things.

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You might want to look here:

http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/

http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/faq_hardware/hwref0.html

You should be able to boot it off a serial terminal for the console. I believe you should also be able to use a standard VGA monitor with the appropriate adapter. That hardware FAQ link above gives a lot of specs on the monitor interface anyway.