AlphaStation 200 NVRAM Problem

[Zane Healy]

> On Apr 24, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro at linux-mips.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, Peter Coghlan wrote:
> 
>> (Congratulations on the progress made so far.  Maybe there is hope yet
>> for my two DEC 3000/600 machines which have similar symptoms.)
> 
> Reminds me to revive my 3000/700, once I get the mechanical issues from 
> mishandling in shipping sorted out.  I hope it hasn't rotted from disuse 
> -- it was alright, booted OSF/1 even, when I last powered it on ~10 years 
> ago.  I should have done it sooner.  Having a physical box I might be able 
> to help even more, check things, etc.  The only difference is the clock 
> rate I believe.
> 
>  Maciej

This thread has been making me wonder about my two AS200’s, I’ve been meaning to revive the one with 768MB of RAM for VMS.  I really should also check out my XP1000/667 as well, though I last booted it a year or so ago, when I needed to research a VMS problem for work.

Zane