20 Mar
2006
20 Mar
'06
3:57 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Yup. I prefer the 19r's for writing code (nice crisp displays).
And no (*^@#! *fans*! (though the 19c's seem to have a *tiny*
fan tucked inside....)
--don
Don Y wrote:
It's not a rush. :> I've been slowly upgrading all of my
NCD's with memory, newer ROMs, etc. I'd *like* to get everything
as (cough) "current" as possible...
Hi,
I asked this on the REScUE list a week or so ago and belatedly
realized *this* would be a better forum. So...
Does anyone happen to have access to an NCD-19c/88K running
firmware (i.e. boot ROM) more recent than 2.6.0?
Not sure what versions the ones I have access to are running, and I
won't be able to check for a few months I'm afraid :-( There's a guy over on www.m88k.org who was working
at replacing the
stock boot firmware with their own code; you might want to contact them
in case they have images of the ROMs that you need... (it looks like he
probably has access to 2.7.3 at least)
Cool! Thanks!
Oh, by the way, I seem to remember that the 88k boxes
had the firmware
for the whole system in sockets on the network card - so you'll
presumably need firmware dumps from a machine with the same type of
network board that you have, or nothing's going to work...
All of the NCDs that I have put the firmware on the NIC
(14c, 19r, 19c/88K). But, these folks appear to have "done
it right": I can pull the ROMs from a 10Base2/AUI card and
slap them on a 10BaseT card without any "issues". And, since
the MAC is stored on the "motherboard", you can swap a NIC
without having to tweak your ethers(5)!
Yeah, I know,
they're all boat anchors... :> But, with a little
TLC they seem to just keep humming...
If only they'd handle 24 bit colour I'd probably still use one on the
desk at home I think. Nice little boxes.