Nekonomicon - What SUN hardware do we have?

mila
From Bålsta, Sweden
Who joined Dec. 31, 2009, 4:20 a.m.

Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2016, 2:20 a.m...

Yepp thats the one, I only have the flashlight and the CPU left, don't know what I did with the tool. I changed the CPU on a number of our SS2 and IPX running Xilinx and Viewlogic EDA tools at that time. From what I recall the CPU was fine for P&R(compiling FPGA data) but for interactive use I did not notice any difference.

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tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 21, 2016, 5:44 p.m...

Hi,
Just scored a Sparcstation 5 with two OS's; disk0 - Solaris 8 and disk1 - NeXTSTEP 3.3. Disk 0 is set as the default boot disk but I can boot to NeXTSTEP by typing boot disk1 at the ok prompt. NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. There are some minor nicks/scratches on the top from where the monitor sat but not bad at all for only a $20 investment.

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
:Indigo2IMP:

Iris - R10k 195 MHz, Max Impact, 512 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

johnnym
Donor
Who joined Sept. 4, 2016, 9:53 p.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 24, 2016, 9:37 p.m...

tux wrote: [...] NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. [...]

I've created an expect script which does the reprogramming automatically , which could allow to get along without exchanging the battery. You could give it a try. As I could only test it on a SPARCstation 20 so far, I'd be interested if it also runs on a SPARCstation 5 out of the box.

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tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 25, 2016, 3:42 p.m...

johnnym wrote:

tux wrote: [...] NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. [...]

I've created an expect script which does the reprogramming automatically , which could allow to get along without exchanging the battery. You could give it a try. As I could only test it on a SPARCstation 20 so far, I'd be interested if it also runs on a SPARCstation 5 out of the box.

Thanks johnnym, I'll give it a try.
Tux