So, I picked up some new toys at "The Event" yesterday, and I was wondering...
Does anyone happen to have copies of CP/M (or any other OS) for Televideo's
TS-801? These seem to have a pair of 5.25" DSDD 48tpi drives, from what
little information I've seen from google. I picked up a pair of TS-801's and
a TS-806C (not to be confused with a TS-806), which is a "shared tape drive"
box.
I haven't found much info there that I can't figure out from a quick look at
the machine, though..
Thanks.
Pat (Wishing he could just ask Don for the disks...)
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Hi,
I'm just finishing up documenting this CoCo2.
Then, unless someone wants to pony up for shipping
>from 85751, it's headed to the landfill. (though
I will probably steal the RF modulator off of it
before doing so). Original cardboard box is
showing signs of age... :-(
Any takers? (only the lower 48 US, please)
--don
> Has anyone here shipped one of these drives before?
Look at the service manual on bitsavers. There is a triangular shipping
plate to prevent the head assembly from sliding out.
> It's also been throwing 13 Paper Jam errors, but there's no paper jam
>visible. Anyone know what causes this? I'm guessing the optosensor on the
>fuser assembly has failed, but I can't identify the opto. Does anyone have a
>part number for it?
You might want to try a good cleaning first. I've had several laser printers display this issue, and
it was likely just dust and fibers in the opto inhibiting the light path. A good way to test emissive IR
components is with a CCD camcorder. Point the camera at the thing (remote . . . ) and the light will
be visible on the monitor if it is functioning.
I have 2 boxes of old Solaris developer docs & cd's, mostly Solaris 2.1,
2.2, 2.3, maybe some 2.4. I think there is a compiler in their also.
Answerbook, install, etc...
If anyone wants them they are free for shipping (not light, I'll bet
each box is 15lbs).
-brad
super-post-script:
In the process of doing this research, IRIX scribbled over my filesystem while I was making a tarfile backup of a directory.
I went to SGI's ftp server to see if I could find a recommended/required patchset, but all they had for IRIX 4.0.x was an
updated Sendmail (in ftp.sgi.com/patches). Are older patchsets still squirelled away somewhere on the FTP site?
(I'm looking for 4.0.5 and 3.3.2)
Abstract: headers are there, not much else.
I moved the IDO 5.3 IRIX4 files over to my P.I. and started playing around with them, and there is mixed news. Bits of IDO4.1 (the recommended IDO for IRIX 4)
are there, including headers and cc, but other bits are missing (make, gendist, and other stuff that make life easier.) So news is mixed: it looks like you could
concievably use the IRIX4 files on the freely-distributable IDO 5.3 to get a lot closer to having a development environment on IRIX 4.0.x, but you'll still need to supplement
(big time) with GNU tools. I have the tarfile of the IRIX4 subrelease here if anyone wants it, but I don't think I'll put too much more work into making it nice. I use 3.3.2 more
often on that machine, anyway. I believe there is also a way to cross-build on an IRIX 5 host.
Thanks to all that have sent help in the form of money or labor offers for
the two large rescues I have going on soon, but we did come up short on the
money side. I have been given to the end of August to pick these items up
and hope to borrow the money that is needed to complete both trips. I will
be sending tax receipts to all the donors and will update you off list after
everything is complete. Thanks again John
Has anyone here shipped one of these drives before?
I'm looking for advice on the proper way to secure it
for shipment. There is no obvious shipping lock
mechanism, though the head actuator appears to be
secured
when retracted.
--Bill
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Nico de Jong" <nico at farumdata.dk>
> From: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
> > You should be able to connect the heads directly to the preamp, and use
> the
> > tapewizl directly. I was going to try recovering HP and Apple 40meg tapes
> > this way using a TU58 transport. I haven't looked at the head geometry on
> > the different drives that take DC100 carts yet, though. I know I've
> scanned
> > some documentation on the 3M transport, will need to see if I've pdf'ed it
> > yet.
> >
> Would this principle work for recovery of 4mm (DAT) and 8 mm (Exabyte)
> tapes? It happens regularly that customers ask if I can read "behind" a
> small file they "happened" to write. I have no problems with 9 track and
> 3480/3490's.
>
> Nico
>
If It Helps ...........
Some place out there, there use to be a tape reading tool
that would read the tape backwards. I believe is was
run under linux ??? I have never used it.
- jerry
