[rescue] ROM image archives (was: SPARCEngine 1E boot ROM)

Alan Perry alanp at snowmoose.com
Fri May 13 17:48:29 EDT 2022


It will probably a couple months before I get to it, but I have a gaggle 
of sun4c and 4m's as well as a shelf of sun3 VME boards to read ROMs 
from. But I wanted to put that Axil320 image that I read for you 
somewhere public before I forgot.

alan

On 5/13/22 11:33 AM, Malte Dehling wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> I have a few prom images I read from machines I have that are not in 
> the sunshack collection at least.  If you let me know where you end up 
> putting your’s, maybe I can add what I have?
>
> For older machines (sun-3 at least) the idprom could also be 
> interesting, at least for oem machines it can contain fun stuff like a 
> custom logo :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Malte
>
>
> On Fri 13. May 2022 at 07:32, Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:
>
>     OK, I will give bitsavers a shot. Just need to find where I put
>     the ftp login info ...
>
>     On 5/13/22 7:24 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>     Bitsavers totally archives ROM images. They tend to do under
>>     /bits but some are under /pdf as well. The MAME people might also
>>     have a collection.
>>
>>     Patrick Finnegan
>>
>>     On Fri, May 13, 2022, 10:19 Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         Does anyone here know of a site where ROM images are archived
>>         for public access? I thought maybe bitsavers but I looked
>>         through there and didn't see any (where I would expect them
>>         to be - all I saw were tape images).
>>
>>         I recently bought a PROM programmer and have been reading
>>         images off of the proms in the Sun (and clone) boxes in my
>>         collection. It would be nice to have a common place to put them.
>>
>>         alan
>>
>>         On 5/13/22 4:14 AM, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
>>>         I attached both proms with my reply, but the mailing list
>>>         put my message on hold due to its size. Each prom is 256kb.
>>>         Any admin/moderator to approve the post ?
>>>
>>>         On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 9:36 PM Plamen Mihaylov
>>>         <plamenspam at afterpeople.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Here are both boot proms.
>>>
>>>
>>>             On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:41 PM Malte Dehling
>>>             <mdehling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>                 Hi Richard,
>>>
>>>                 On Wed 11. May 2022 at 01:14, Richard
>>>                 <ejb at trick-1.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>                     Hi folks
>>>
>>>                     My SPARCEngine board came with a VxWorks rom. 
>>>
>>>
>>>                 If you have a way to read that prom, could you send
>>>                 me an image?
>>>
>>>                     Anyone have or know where to find the sun boot rom?
>>>
>>>
>>>                 Unfortunately not me.
>>>
>>>                 Cheers,
>>>                 Malte
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