Articles tagged "Sun4c"
Sun SPARCstation 1
The 1989 "Campus" that started the pizza box era, restored to a genuine SS1 board after arriving with a Purdue clone upgrade installed
Sun SPARCstation 2
The early-90s Unix workhorse, here with an 80 MHz Weitek PowerUp and a rare fully-populated 64 MB DataRAM SBus card
Converting a SunOS 4.1.4 Disk from sun4c to sun4m
Grafting sun4m kernel architecture onto a heavily customized sun4c SunOS 4.1.4 root so it boots on an SS5 and under QEMU, without reinstalling and without disturbing the userland
Interactive Sun IDPROM Reset Tool — M48T02 / M48T08 / M48T59
Interactive web tool that automatically generates the OpenBoot mkp commands to reprogram the IDPROM after replacing or battery-modding any Sun timekeeper NVRAM chip — M48T02, M48T08, M48T18, M48T35, M48T59 — on a SPARCstation.
Locked Out: Clearing the Firmware Password on Vintage Sun Workstations
How to bypass and clear a firmware password on Sun SPARCstations and Ultras when the timekeeper chip has lost its memory
Burning a New SPARCstation 1 PROM
How to upgrade the OpenBoot PROM on a SPARCstation 1 using a MiniPRO TL866II Plus programmer
Sun Boot ROM and Firmware Image Archive
Downloadable OpenBoot PROM and firmware images for Sun workstations and servers
Last OpenBoot PROM Versions for Sun Workstations
Reference table of the final OBP firmware versions available for each Sun workstation model
Fixing a Corrupted TOD Clock on SunOS 4.1.4
How to recover a SunOS 4.1.4 system that won't boot after setting a modern date corrupted the time-of-day chip
Getting SunOS 4.1.4 Working
Notes on installing and configuring SunOS 4.1.4 on real hardware, including networking, DNS, X11, and GCC
Replacing a Sun IPX Power Supply with a Mini ATX
How to replace a failed Sun SPARCstation IPX power supply with an inexpensive TF400 Mini ATX supply
M48T02 Timekeeper External Battery Mod
How to add an external coin cell battery to M48T02 timekeeper chips
The Rise and Fall of SPARCstation Clones
When Sun had competition from its own architecture
Resetting IDPROM on Sun Workstations
How to reprogram the IDPROM on sun4c, sun4m, sun4d, and sun4u workstations
SunOS 4.1 Using DNS without NIS
How to modify the shared C library on SunOS 4.1.x to use DNS resolution without NIS