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<body em_lighttheme_added="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">All,<div><br /></div><div>With the help of fellow lister Walter Belgers, I\u2019m getting my 3/80 back up and running,</div><div><br /></div><div>After getting a good framebuffer from Walter, and getting the NVRAM programmed (correctly, I hope\u2026) I was able to find a ZuluSCSI image of a running 3/80 with SunOS 4.1.1_u1 from a post of VCFED. I downloaded that, and put it on a BlueSCSI, and the machine boots up as expected.</div><div><br /></div><div>The image is supposed to have the Y2K patches applied, and the system thinks its date is sometime in February of 2000. The clock keeps time - if I leave it unplugged for an hour, come back and start the system again, the clock will have advanced an hour.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, if I try and set the date, it won\u2019t change. Using (doing this from memory, but following the man page)</div><div> </div><div style=""> YYMMDDHHMM </div><div style=""><br /></div><div style=""> 2605040924</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">It would come back with</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">Setting the date to 09:24 May 4 2026</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">And then show the old date again.</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">If I use a year prior to 2000 it does the same thing.</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">Not sure if this is a SunOS quirk, an NVRAM hiccup of some kind, out an issue with the image and/or BlueSCSI.</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">I should say writing stuff to the file system works OK, which makes me think it\u2019s an NVRAM related thing, maybe.</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">Does this ring any bells with anyone? </div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">My PROM level is 3.0, which seemingly precludes any chance of CD installation, though I have the CD. Tape is out of the question, unless someone has the tapes and the working drive they want to part with \U0001f642 I can try and put together a SCSI disk with the mini root and and install stuff, I guess, but that will be a project for the future.</div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="">Thanks for any advice - I\u2019m pretty excited the thing is working at all - this is an annoyance at this point, but if I want to do more with the machine, I\u2019m going to want to figure it out, and do a more comprehensive install.</div><div style=""><br /></div></body></html>