On Wed, 1 May 2002, Young, Julian wrote:

>I have the posiblity of obtaing a SparcStation ipx (hopefully for a song)
>can any one give me a quick comparison on this machine compaired to a
>SparcClasic.

Not sure if this problem affected the Classic, but the IPX and other old 
sun4c had poor NVRAM backup batteries, which should be about ready to give 
up the ghost anytime now, though I've not seen the problem first hand. The 
hardware FAQs will give details of how to remedy the problem.

Lovely little machines, though (my first UNIX experience was with an IPX.)

>
>J
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