Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on Nostr: My Sun SPARCstation LX NVRAM / Timekeeper chip is dead, not surprising as they have a ...
My Sun SPARCstation LX NVRAM / Timekeeper chip is dead, not surprising as they have a life of 11 years and this thing is 32 years old. Let's do something about it!
(x86 fans, these are similar to Dallas time chips, but also have storage for system configurations)
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