SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))
Alan Perry
aperry at snowmoose.com
Fri Apr 27 17:40:49 CDT 2018
I keep them all. Not counting the bad ones in the SS1 and 2, I have 7.
I can send them to you. I don't mind pick up the shipping costs for
something small like that. But the $70 that is it going to cost to ship
the SS20 to its new home is another matter.
alan
On 4/27/18 3:33 PM, systems_glitch wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
> <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 <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto: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.
>
>
>
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