[rescue] SPARCstation 1 boot woes

[Dave McGuire]

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. :)

   I had a few minutes so I ran over to the museum. (it's down the 
street from where I work)  The SPARCstation-1 on exhibit there is 
actually an SS1+ with an SS1 top cover, which annoyed me a bit; I'm 
going to have to have a little chat with the guy who built that exhibit. 
  I'll change it out at some point.

   But either way, it has OBP v1.3.  I should be able to open up that 
machine and read the EPROM this weekend.  But something from a "real" 
SS1 will take me a bit longer.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA