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This is what I needed to do on 4.1.4 on spare. Might help.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/modern-time-of-day-sunos/">https://oldsilicon.com/technologies/modern-time-of-day-sunos/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-t<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:medium;margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px;font-weight:bold"><div style="margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px"><font style="font-size:14px">Todd Vernon</font></div><div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px"><font style="font-size:13px">Entrepreneur | Investor</font></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Email: <a href="mailto:todd@toddvernon.com" target="_blank">todd@toddvernon.com</a></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddvernon/" target="_blank">toddvernon</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On May 4, 2026 at 8:34:31\u202fAM, Steve Hatle via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div style="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></div></div>
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