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