Re: [slackware-alphadevel] identify my machine!

From: Sir Ace (chandleg@wizardsworks.org)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 12:52:08 PST


Here's the URL for it then:
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/archive/eb164/

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Chris Lumens wrote:

> > Actually I am a complete retard... I know how you can tell...
> > Remember when I sent you that message after I sent you that alpha...
> > Whenever you are in doubt, make a fat floppy and put fwupdate.exe on it
> > and run it, from the ARC... It will tell you the exact name of the file
> > it's looking for....
>
> It says "cannot find firmware image" and dumps me back at the
> "update/reboot" menu thingy. Upon closer inspection of the floppy disk
> that came with the computer, I discovered that it said:
>
> EB164.IMG (w/ MILO)
>
> A clue?
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
> @n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>

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