Altos 386/1000 boot/diags images?

Wayne S wayne.sudol at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 10 12:12:07 CDT 2018


There's a guy here in So Cal that has a bunch of vintage computers including an Altos. 
I haven't seen it personally but he has a Craigslist ad.
Said he put it on ebay and sold it but didn't want to ship because it's real heavy, so i guess the deal fell thru.
Current ad says $300 for all.



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> On Oct 10, 2018, at 07:06, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On 10/10/18 7:00 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>>> On 10/10/18 2:42 AM, Gordon Henderson via cctalk wrote:
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>>> So I'm a bit stuck. I've found some manuals online but they're not really helping - I'll take it to bits later and see
>>> if I can read the internal SCSI drive on another system but I'm not convinced there is an issue with the drive though.
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>> you  REALLY should image this disk even if you think it is fine.
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> I have a diagnostic floppy image at http://bitsavers.org/bits/Altos/386-series
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> I had a S-1000, but it was stolen earlier this year by thieves that broke into
> my shipping container before I could image the drive.
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