[rescue] First posting & seeking a Sparc 10 w. updated Dallas RTC/NvRam

[Robert Klein]

Hello. I have been on the sidelines of this list for 20+ 
years and have enjoyed seeing what a nice community you have.
I was deep into SunOS and Solaris in the years surrounding 
2000 at Exodus Communications, till its demise.

I feel a bit bad poking my head up when I am seeking 
something. I have had an old Sun Sparc 10 running since the 
mid 90's and except for replacing the power supply fans a 
couple times after noticing a bad smells emanating, it has 
been unbelievably reliable especially after some severe 
overheat events.

I realized for a few years that the battery in the Dallas 
RTC would be dead, but this machine was running continuously 
all this time and I knew it was one power failure away form 
being bricked.  I had been keeping this system up all these 
years for fun. (In 1983 I put together a multi user chat BBS 
on a PC clone, which was rewritten to run on a Solbourne,  
then moved it from SunOS to Solaris on the Sparc 10.

Although it is outdated, there is still a loyal core that 
like to log in and find old friends of yesteryear that also 
may be there. Sometimes a critical mass occurs and people 
are on for hours, catching up.

I would like to keep it going by securing, somehow, an 
unused Sparc10 with a happy more recent Dallas chip to keep 
it going by just moving my HDD to the new box.

I don't have much to trade anymore, but I am happy to trade 
an original stand alone DecTalk. (In the modem days I was 
putting together a way for users to dial in and have the 
DecTalk read the users email to them)

Any thoughts?  I am in the SF Bay Area.  Thanks and pleased 
to meet you all and Happy New Year as well !

Bob Klein

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