[rescue] SPARCstation 1 boot woes

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu May 29 12:41:48 EDT 2025


On 5/29/25 11:26, David McMackins II wrote:
>>    We have an SS1 running on exhibit at LSSM.  The next time I'm over
>> there (which may be tonight) I'll start it up and see what revision of
>> OBP that machine has, and if it's 1.x, I'll read the EPROM for you.
> 
> Wonderful! I would kindly request on behalf of others that you dump the
> EPROM even if it is a different 2.x version, because 2.9 is the only
> one that seems to be available on the web. These old boot images seem
> to be at risk of becoming lost media. I'm happy to upload it to the
> Internet Archive if you don't want to do that yourself. :)

   Yes, no problem.  I have several other SS1s in my personal 
collection; I'll check those out too, when I can.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA



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