Re(2): [SunRescue] Stupid NVRAM questions

[Paul Khoury - Tech Support]

At 12:54 AM 2/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>>Personally, I would rather pay the $17.00 each for the things, program them
>>and be done. the $10 or so I would save is *not* worth the time to futz with
>>an old NVRAM. Especially if it is a nice boxen, or one for resale.
>
>  Definitely.  If it gets another bunch of years of life out of a machine,
it's
>well worth it!
>

Definately - I admit, the quality of my SPARCs is SOOOOOO much better
than cheap PCs - built to last.  Especially the Sun3's - they're slower
than pissing Alpha tar, but built tough and last forever (well, almost).

I will say I was surprised when I powered on a 1+ I bought recently, and
it said clock gained 1592 or something days, yet the NVRAM still worked
(wow, 5 years!).

Paul