Recent content by BloodyCactus

Ive been running system commander since like 94. its been amazing. always good to have other options (I don't think SC runs on an XT, I don't remember), sometimes I wish I had that option on my sun sparc box (silo never worked for me)....

I did find 1.5.2 on archive org but its not a solely bootable iso for sparc you have to do the miniroot thing or floppy boot etc. https://archive.org/details/netbsd-1.5.2 and after some digging, 1.6.1 https://archive.org/details/LnC34

if you know of a url for the 1.6.2 sparc iso I'd love a link (1.6.2 was the last release before 2.0). I went looking some time back and never found one. I have a 2.0 iso but didnt find any of the 1.6 sparc iso's.

Nope well it contains a bunch of SUN + BSD copyrights, runs X/ftp/telnet, so I made an assumption :) I know its got a rockymountain basic type thing underneath too. now I remember, we poked around it on eevblog many years ago and its a variant of pSOS (Portable Software On Silicon), its an...

on my 1670G, it has ethernet, so you can FTP or Telnet into it and get files that way, its running a wonky slim unix underneath (and has an old X11 server so you can actually remotely run it on your desktop). i think some of the 1661 models also support X11

I have a 1670G, and its roms and other bits are LIF files internally. they start as "HFSILF" and have at 0x100 "WS_FILE", and can see the 00 FE records.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?read=24 https://www.keysight.com/us/en/lib/software-detail/computer-software/lifutil--reading-keysight-lif-disks-on-msdos-1000000786epsgsud.html

well SK_DOS has numerically named sections (.sec1 down to .sec24) it has no .text, .rodata etc. SK_DOS.ELF is not executable.

looks like the ross dual 142mhz module. wow. I've never seen one before. https://archive.irixnet.org/sgistuff/collection/other/sun015.html https://archive.irixnet.org/sgistuff/collection/other/images/sun015-upgrade2.jpg

my guess is dual supersparc 50mhz, they are the only doublewidth cpu modules I've ever seen. and the layout matches.

1982 date coded chips... so would have been for the 5150.. without a timer... i wonder if it just updates every time you do a port read on it.

without a keyboard it will go serial port output only mode.

Ive got a bunch of electronic test equipment, thought I'd attach a few and poke em. (right now I have a ethernet to gpib box I use instead to get stuff on my network easily). Hunting for the NI iso was tough though. The next goal is to get the zuluscsi in. I've got about 10 cdrom blanking plates...

I asked around at work and one of the guys had one (score!) I think he said it came from an Ultra1. so now were booting without error;

I pulled the SFE2.0 card, reset the nvram defaults and did a reprogramming of it, reset. no fcode error. show-sbus gives me the correct results. I put the SFE2.0 back in, fcode error. reset nvram defaults and did it again. fcode error. so SFE2.0 eeprom is corrupt I guess. It has an 27c512 in...