[Info-vax] PWS 600au lost its memory: CMOS reverts to AlphaBIOS

[Ken Fairfield]

On Sep 8, 11:31 am, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Bit late to the game, sorry, but...

No problem.  This is getting to be fun. :-)

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> The Service Guide should be findable viahttp://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/aseries/index....
> but as is typical with the HP website (and many others) the relevant
> link leads to a 404. If someone with the right contacts wants to get
> this fixed...

You can walk down the ftp://ftp.compaq.com/ link, but
there's a missing /workstation folder that would've held
the Miata file.  There is some other interesting stuff
out there, like many versions of DECevent and Webes,
FWIW...

> Meanwhile, folks can use their favourite search engine to find a copy
> of miatasg.zip or miatasg.exe (the PWS family were codenamed Miata,
> iirc). I found a miatasg.zip which appeared to work, athttp://www.cilinder.be/docs/digitalpwsau/?C=M%3BO=A
>
> What you get is a set of web pages which should cover what you need to
> know now and probably a whole lot more which you might need one day,
> who knows...
>
> Grab now, while stocks last.

I took your advice and grabbed the .zip file.  It's fun
to bounce around the various topics.  I agree that
this could be useful someday.  A keeper. :-)

   Thanks, Ken