[rescue] SPARCstation 1 boot woes

[David McMackins II]

I had not checked there; in fact, I'd not even heard of it until now.
However, their Sun software collection seems rather limited and does
not contain any boot ROM images. It's also unclear on their website how
one even goes about making a submission.

-- 
Regards,

David E. McMackins II
www.mcmackins.org

On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 13:49 -0400, John Hudak via rescue wrote:
> FWIW, have you checked bitsavers?  Also, would'nt the EPROM dumps be
> something that should be put up on bitsavers?
> 
> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM David McMackins II via rescue
> <rescue at sunhelp.org> 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.
> > > 
> > >               -Dave
> > 
> > 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. :)
> > 
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