NVRAM contents, Save some Suns, and a question

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com wrote: Not quite. In some guide, I remember there was a "quick-and-dirty" way of assembling some bogus NVRAM info for Suns. Basically you only have to get the machine class designation right (there is a table for this) and you must set the manufacturer part of the MAC ID to 8:0:20, or you'll get complaints about a broken main board. The rest is totally free, so one usually winds up with host parts and serial no.s that read de:ad or c0:ff:ee or anything like that... On the other hand, Sun still maintains a complete database of the NVRAM infos programmed into any machine that was delivered. If you want to get it historically correct, you want to put those values back; in order to get them, you have to read the four (later: six) character NVRAM ID off the white or yellow bar-code sticker on the NVRAM. Then, the guys at sunopsis (The Sun Museum) can help you. My contact person there is ruediger (dot) frenk (at) sun (dot) com, he'll sure help you too. That is, if you don't flood him all at once now. While we're at it: Erlangen University in southern Germany is about to scrap part of its SUN inventory. There are (several of most types): SPARCstation 1, 1+, 2, 5, 10, 20, SPARCclassic, Ultra 1. The SPARCstation 1 come with mgone monochrome ECL frame buffers, matching monitors are available. 10's and 20's have varying processors. RAM, hard disks and drive sleds may be missing. Keyboards, Monitors, Mice are there, also additional RAM (mostly smaller modules than those currently installed, and a bunch of older Sbus framebuffers. Heck, even some FDDI Boards! I'd like to see as much as possible saved; they're free for the taking, but I'd rather not have to deal with shipping the stuff. Smaller items perhaps, but not whole machines or monitors. Counter-donations accepted - anybody have a SPARCstation 5/10/20 parallel port adapter spare? And a question to the gurus around: When going over the SPARCclassic systems, I noticed there are obviously two variants. It's the pictograms on the back side of the housing, next to the 26-pin Micro-D connector - one kind only has the networking symbol < . . . > there, the other has that *and* a speaker symbol (as on the SPARCstation 10, where you need the splitter cable and the audio box to bring out the signals). Both kinds have Line In and Out as two jack sockets, and the Sun documentation says that only the AUI part of the connector is used in the SPARCclassic: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SUNERGY/TrCOMM_SS_LX_10_AUI_Aud io_Port.html Anybody know if the Audio symbol was only put there erroneously, or can you really connect and use a audio box on these systems? Thanks in advance: Arno Kletzander Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen --- www.iser.uni-erlangen.de