sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

[ED SHARPE]

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

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On Dec 1, 2018, at 6:55 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> BUMMER
> It may become a static display.....
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> Ed#
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> In a message dated 12/1/2018 7:53:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
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> A 4/40 is a SPARCstation IPC. It used a M48T02 NVRAM for the IDPROM. 
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> Yes, one with the dreaded battery.
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> alan
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> 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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