OK that is promising!
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On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
Most Suns of that era don?t need intact NVRAM to run, you can just key in a few lines of
Forth when you start it up (to set its Ethernet address and serial number), then tell it
to boot off network/disk/CD, and it?ll be fine.
-- Chris
On Dec 1, 2018, at 6:55 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> BUMMER
> It may become a static display.....
> Ed#
> In a message dated 12/1/2018 7:53:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:
> A 4/40 is a SPARCstation IPC. It used a M48T02 NVRAM for the IDPROM.
> Yes, one with the dreaded battery.
> alan
> On 12/1/18 5:04 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
>> we were given this and a hard dribe a floor standimg decwriter..... does this use
NV ram with dreaded battery? thanks,ed
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