[SunRescue] more nvram hell - why me? MeeTOO but OK...

[Eric Hall]

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> > I just "won" a Sparc 2 from Ebay,
> > and much to my dismay, the nvram
> > is dead, dead, dead. My first impulse
> > was to strip out the ram, HD, whatever
> > was of value in it - and *chuck* the
> > useless piece of (*^&!!
>
> Hey, I, myopic ol' geezer Bob, just ahh, er... repaired, or make that
> rebatteried one of those chips for my 4/330 crate.  It requries a steady
> hand, a mill bastard file as thick as the width of the epoxy channel
> on the tail end of the chip, and a 15 watt soldering pencil (fine tip).
>
>

Ok, I've got the leads, I think --

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Am I correct?

Eric H


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