At 06:17 PM 1/7/04 -0500, Pat wrote:
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 15:42, Joe wrote:
Another of today's finds. Two
"Verbatim 24Mb High Capacity Flexible
Disk Servowritten and Verified 78 Sectors per Track 666 TPI". These
have a hard plastic shell with a shutter. I thought at first they
were MO disks but they're thinner plus the capacity is a lot less. I
haven't figured out how to release the shutter so I don't know what
the media looks like. One disk is label "Restricted Rights Encore
Computer Corporation". It used to have somehting typed on the label
but it's all faded now and it's too faint to read.
I've never seen these before. Does anyone know any more about them?
Joe
Encore used to make terminal servers - called 'Annex' - which seem to be
impossible to find boot images for. If you can find a way to read
that disk, it probably has drivers if it's still intact. It'd be
useful to me, amoung others I'm sure.
OK then why don't you send me your address and I'll send you the disks.
You're more like to find a drive for them than I am. I found these with a
pile of gutted VME computers (but I didn't notice the brand name of the
computers). I don't know if they came from one of those computers or not
but the next time I go back there I'll look at them closer and see if the
drive might still be there. Hopefully the drive used a SCSI interface or
something standard. FWIW the *only* thing that I did find in the computers
was a PCI/VME adapter card made by Bit3.
Joe