Great job on the build, love the article.
Love all the old Sun workstations. We had tens of thousands of Sun and SGI workstations at work. I started with a Sparc Station 20 then to a Ultra 1 Creator, Ultra 2 Creator, Ultra 30 Elite, Ultra 60, Sun Blade 1500 and 2500 before we went to Windows Vista.
Many engineers grew up with Solaris workstations at their main computers, and bought off lease workstations for home machines, just for normal home use. I had a Ultra 30 at home and came very, very close to buying a Ultra 45 (glad I didn't, those things were monsters)
I was part of a training team that had to teach many users how to use Windows Vista when we finally made the switch to
Windows for engineering workstations. There were users who never used Windows before, but who were quite proficient on Solaris.
There are still some users who still use the Sun three button (no scroll wheel) mouse