This could be of general interest for the list members. Looking for NVRAM chips to revive an old SparcStation 5 I have found this chinese site: http://www.utsource.net They have both the M48TXX RTC chips used in suns and the DS218X used in vaxstations, at a very reasonable price (around 5 USD). I have just placed an order for some chips for the suns I have, and I will tell you how it goes. Jordi Guillaumes i Pons jg at jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES