Tony Duell wrote:
Do you know anything about the Philips machines?
As I mentioned in another message, Jules gave me some kind of Philips
multi-user box. A number of boards each with 2 serial ports (IIRC), some
with Z80As on them , others with 80188s. A large PSU (which I must get
round to repairing) with lead-acid battery backup And what seems to be a
SCSI interface to the disk system and a space for a QIC tape drive.
Yep. It's a P3800, running TurboDOS (or it would, if it worked ;)
I saw some claim on the web a few years back that it'd support up to 62
terminals (although whether that machine I gave you has enough guts to do that
with appropriate cables / breakout boxes, I'm not sure)
Seeing if you can get some sense out of the hard disk is perhaps the best
route as without that the machine's never going to do anything :-( I can't
remember if the bus is SCSI or SASI now, but there's a bridge board to the
ST506/412 drive - theoretically it could be driven from another system and the
'raw' contents read off (but potentially with some intelligent guessing of
drive parameters if the bridge doesn't pre-initialise)
cheers
Jules