13 Aug
2010
13 Aug
'10
11:54 a.m.
On 8/12/10 9:35 AM, dwight elvey wrote:
I think I can read it with my programmer. At least with an adapter to make
it think it is a 2716.
I tried the "eeprom" and it didn't work :(
This must be before someon realized it was a good idea. Acording
to the history page I saw, the SparcBook was relatively early in
the history of things.
That model of SparcBook is quite old, yes. So the eeprom program
isn't present, or it failed to function? It definitely existed in that
release of SunOS; it's possible that Tadpole's hardware was
incompatible. Their SPARC laptops really didn't start to become very
compatible at the hardware level until the "3" series.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
My problem is that I don't know if I can restore
the information in it.
The early Sparcbooks didn't have openboot.
Under SunOS, you can use the program called "eeprom" to dump out most
of the important contents. As far as restoring it, I'm not sure about
that, as I don't know what ROM-based code the very early SPARCbooks use.
One way to do it might be to read it out using an EPROM programmer.
My Data I/O supports the MK48T02, for example.