Re(2): Re(2): [SunRescue] Inexpensive(?) Sun 1962B's and other Sun stuff inTwin C

[Paul Khoury]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:17:27 -0500, Tim Hauber wrote:

>rescue at sunhelp.org writes:
>>Speaking of which, where is a cheap place for NVRAMs?  I just accquired 2
>>SPARC IPC's,
>>but they have dead NVRAMs, and seem to cost as much as the machine is
>>worth.
>
>If you are using the machines yourself, and have good fine motor skills
>and a steady soldering iron they are easy to modify to run from an
>external battery, I have made several run from a pair of AAA batteries,
>and other people on the list have done so with Lithium buttoncells (Like
>PC Bios batteries)
>
Hmmm... I know I used to have bad motor skills, and my soldering stinks,
but that might be a possibility.  I can solder, but notihng like surface
mounting (of course), or complex stuff.

So the NVRAMs just have a 3v lithium?