<div dir="ltr"><div>[quote]</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Thanks, BIll, for the tips.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">And please understand: deeply appreciate the machines. I blame issues</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">surrounding my day job for my total lack of progress.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">[quote]</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">No worries, already understood!</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 04/03/2015 01:03 PM, Bill Schwanitz wrote:<br>
> Depending on which of those machines I gave you there could be some<br>
> interesting stuff. The ultra1 I know worked but had a dead eeprom battery<br>
> so it'll boot after you type "go". the ultra 30 I think may have been dead<br>
> but I never gave it much time/troublshooting.<br>
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</span>Thanks, BIll, for the tips.<br>
And please understand: deeply appreciate the machines. I blame issues<br>
surrounding my day job for my total lack of progress.<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
> Both systems you can hook up a serial connection. Assuming you see gunk,<br>
> just send a ctrl+break to the terminal and you should see the ok prompt.<br>
<br>
</span>Serial ... ah, DB25, ... just takes my eyes a little while to re-adjust.<br>
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<br>
> If you have the keyboard, l1+a will bring the box to the ok prompt. From<br>
> there, boot net ( rarp not dhcp/pxe ) or boot cdrom.<br>
<br>
</span>I have two Sun keyboards. (one USB, the other "D" connector) The VGA<br>
monitor I plugged in was blind (got no signal via the convertor plug I<br>
used) so I gave up on that route (at the time). Will try again and then<br>
will try serial if it fails.<br>
<br>
<br>
> hope that helps.<br>
<br>
If only for the moral support, you bet! Thanks.<br>
<br>
Am still interested in a local SPARC HW link-up. I have this perverse<br>
interest in creating (Linux) architecture mixes. In my own space, I have<br>
I386, Power/PPC, S390, and ARM. Now with the router hacks (eg: flashing<br>
OpenWRT/CeroWRT) would also help to have MIPS. And SPARC is interesting<br>
because Oracle actually still pushes the hardware (usu w/ Solaris) ...<br>
and I just *like* it.<br>
<br>
Anyone got an Alpha they'd like to bring online and share?<br>
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-- R; <><<br>
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