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

On 4/30/18 10:20 AM, Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: 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

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

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > 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

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

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,

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

On 4/27/18 3:03 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk 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

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

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%

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

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

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

Tip on replacement hard drives: you can use a SCA drive with an adapter inside some Sun boxes, or my personal favorite, a Sun "UniDisk" enclosure with a SCA drive inside. SCA drives are really cheap, even for big ones (they go up to 300 GB), and you can still get some of the later production

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

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

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

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk 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

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

I wrote: >... yesterday I managed to take the two SPARCstation 20s that I gotfrom >Pete's and make one working dual-processor SS20. I alsopassed on one of >the SS5s to its new owner. The person who originally spoke up for the >SS20 has not responded to subsequent e-mail, so it may be available.