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Article #4426Re: Unknown console password on DECstation 5000/33
From: Ken Curewitz
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:59
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:59
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I believe that the Dallas chip has a pin on it (pin 21?) that, when grounded (to pin 12) (with the system power off!!!), clears the NVRAM. I would also guess that they used a socket on the Dallas chip. -- Ken Curewitz Brown University Box 1910 Providence RI 02912 kmc@cs.brown.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!brunix!cs.brown.edu!kmc From: kmc@cs.brown.edu (Ken Curewitz) Subject: Re: Unknown console password on DECstation 5000/33 Message-ID: <1993Jan25.135931.1321@cs.brown.edu> Sender: news@cs.brown.edu Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept. References: <1993Jan20.152752.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu> <ROBM.93Jan21164254@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU> <1993Jan22.100004.63045@cc.usu.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:59:31 GMT Lines: 8