Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 09:31:18 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #30 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 19 Sep 94 Volume 7 : Issue 30 Today's Topics: Rom revisions for the 3/60 ROM upgrades for 3/60's? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 06:20:18 +1000 (EST) From: craig@orb.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) Subject: Rom revisions for the 3/60 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > From: Greg Tarsa > Subject: ROM upgrades for 3/60's? > > There have been several mentions of "latest ROM revisions" for 3/60 machines. > Can anyone point me at a source for them? Does one go directly to SUN? I guess Sun would sell you a new boot rom for the 3/60, but I also guess that they'd ask a ridiculous price for it. Even though they don't support the 3-series anymore they still know how to rip you off for any bits for them. I received a uuencoded binary image of the v3.0.1 bootrom (the last one to be done for the 3/60) by email from a 3/60 owner in Denmark! Since I've got an EPROM programmer here, and some spare 27C512 EPROMS, I burnt my own from the supplied image once I located a utility to convert the raw binary image into an Intel-format hex file to send to my programmer. Regards, Craig. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 18:55:03 BST From: brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (Brandon Butterworth) Subject: ROM upgrades for 3/60's? To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu > From: Greg Tarsa > Subject: ROM upgrades for 3/60's? > > There have been several mentions of "latest ROM revisions" for 3/60 machines. > Can anyone point me at a source for them? Does one go directly to SUN? I have a collection of 3/80 roms on disk so you can blow your own (I was experimenting with the different versions needed to support 4M simms). I only have one 3/60 but I could dump a copy of that if needed (I suppose I should power it up and check which version I have). Is anyone making an archive of old Sun related stuff (hacks, hardware info, copies of firmware)? I realise there may be some commercial problems but as Sun drop support for things I think they fade away. For non commercial self help why should they mind, my work use of Sun kit has grown based on my first home 3/50 many years ago so they have profited. Brandon ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************