The Tadpole SPARCbook 6500

I bought a SPARC laptop at a garage sale. The machine is a Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 with an UltraSPARC-IIe at 650 MHz, 4GB of RAM, and a 1400x1050 panel. Tadpole built these in Carlsbad after merging with RDI, and they are the last generation of a genuinely strange idea: a laptop that runs Solaris on real SPARC silicon. It powers on. It also greets you with this: The IDPROM contents are invalid Dead…