SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

[systems_glitch]

You can always send me the dead modules and I'll rebuild them (GlitchWorks
== me, my wife sometimes helps with assembly). Whatever you do, don't throw
out the dead NVRAMs -- I'll buy them or pay for you to ship them or
whatever, they're not making more and they're the only solution that's 100%
compatible.

Yeah, the "still works but pukes errors" is the typical symptom of the
newer, slightly incompatible 48T02s in Sun machines. I don't recall if mine
kept accurate time with the newer modules.

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> The ones from Mouser work well enough in every system that I have used
> them in. I still get the IDPROM corrupt message on boot on some systems,
> but it holds the MAC and the systems boot without intervention.
>
> I tried to repair a few and botched most of them. I know that I should be
> using the GlitchWorks stuff, but it has been easier to just buy something
> that I can plug in.
>
> alan
>
>
> On 4/27/18 3:15 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Don't get the new MK48T02/MK48T08s from Mouser et al, they're not fully
>> compatible. They will retain NVRAM but the clock part is different and
>> you'll get an error on that (system won't autoboot). Rebuild your old
>> NVRAM! I made up some little boards to make the repair cleaner and faster
>> to do (I had about 50 NVRAMs to repair):
>>
>> http://www.glitchwrks.com/2017/08/01/gw-48t02-1
>>
>> There are other guides for tacking on a coin cell holder without cutting
>> off the entire top encapsulation, but if you do that, it may not fit under
>> SBus cards if you're doing it on a system that puts SBus slots over the
>> NVRAM.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk <
>> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk
>>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> - SPARCstation 1. Chassis is intact. It has a bad IDPROM; aside from
>>>> that
>>>>   it passes onboard diagnostics. It has 12M memory, no HDD now, and a
>>>> 3.5"
>>>>   floppy drive. It has no SBus cards. Aside from the IDPROM, it doesn't
>>>>   have any issues (but I haven't run an OS on it yet). Like the SS2, it
>>>>   needs a bath. A small portion of the plastic cover over the rear of
>>>> the
>>>>   case is broken off.
>>>>
>>>> What are these "actual parts expenses"? IDPROMs are around $25 on
>>>> Mouser.
>>>> SCSI HDDs start around $70 shipped on eBay and SCSI2SD are $60 plus
>>>> shipping to me plus the SD price. Given the price of 25 year old HDDs
>>>>
>>> with
>>>
>>>> a stated service life of 5 years (according to one spec sheet that I
>>>>
>>> read),
>>>
>>>> SCSI2SD looks pretty attractive.
>>>>
>>>> When you say IDPROM, is that a Dallas built-in battery NVRAM type of
>>> thing? I have an SS1 with a dead NVRAM thing. Are the currently
>>> available versions of those new at Mouser fully compatible? Those are
>>> one of those things that the new versions aren't always fully
>>> compatible with the old versions for some systems, even though they
>>> are supposed to be.
>>>
>>> My SS1 is also in the Seattle area. If there is much demand for those
>>> it's probably one of those systems I'll never get around to doing
>>> anything with it myself. I also have a 4/110. Those seem to be a lot
>>> less common, and maybe more collectible.
>>>
>>>
>