Re: NVRAM's in older Sparcstations (was: "Sun monitor conversion")

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00

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In <71fbi2$a62$1@newsreader2.core.theplanet.net> "Neil Steadman" <neil@soma.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>If you're a private sparcstation user with a defunct NVRAM
>chip, it's a lot easier to rip out everything useful and bin
>the rest, than trying to get a new NVRAM from Sun!

No way!

You can buy unprogrammed NVRAM's from larger electronics retailers. Here in
Australia I source them directly from the local distributor of SGS-Thomson
semiconductor products (in a tube-lot, but US retailers often sell them
individually) and they are quite simple to program using ROM monitor
commands. 

BTW, I re-cycle the older Sparcstations as Xterminals since there's nothing
wrong with them other than being slow by current standards. They are also
very reliable and make cheap, easy to maintain Unix systems for people who
want to learn about Unix, particularly SunOS/Solaris and Sun hardware.

Regards,

Craig.

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From: cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick)
Subject: Re: NVRAM's in older Sparcstations (was: "Sun monitor conversion")
Date: 1998/11/01
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