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Kralizec Craig wrote:

>>not so sure you are always right here, one problem is SUNs
>>NVRAM with built-in battery, this is a problematic construction
>>i think. 
> 
> 
> Why? Just replace the NVRAM and the machine is good to go again once the new
> NVRAM is programmed.
> 
> Craig.
> 
Sooner or later I expect those chips will stop being manufactured. Then 
you will have more of a problem, although people have opened them up to 
put an external battery. I would not do it now, as you can buy the 
chips, but I can't see a chip with such limited storage being made forever.

That said, even die hards like me will probably scrap the SS20s before 
then, although I have a certain fondness for that machine .

I got one once when some "ram raiders" thrashed them all at work and it 
was an insurance write-off. But whilst I was pretty sure ram could have 
fitted in the slot, it was too expensive for me to risk it. I managed to 
borrow some ram overnight from a friend who was a system admin at a 
polytechnic, but then we found the CPU had gone too. He was going to 
return the RAM, then borrow a CPU & RAM the next day. But his mum died, 
so he had other things on his mind and I could not afford to buy the 
bits on the off-chance it worked. So it got sold for more (in a 
non-working state) than I suspect my U80 with 4x450 and 4GB is worth now!