[Suns-at-Home] SS-5 and NVRAM

[Charles Lindsey]

I have a Sparcstation 5 which, after being switched off for some months,  
appears to have lost its clock (i.e. on booting, its starts off with the  
date/time as last seen). OTOH, the NVRAM does not seem completely dead,  
since it still knows the serial number and the ethernet number. So it is  
possible that the battery is dying but has not fully died yet? I had  
always supposed that these things either worked, or they didn't, but this  
seems half-and-half.

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