16 Apr
2012
16 Apr
'12
1:39 p.m.
Hi Nico,
Nico de Jong <nico at farumdata.dk> wrote:
Even QIC drives are not all SCSI compliant. I remember
an Archive
drive (5956?, 36 MB?) which had its own controller, and could not be
spoken to with e.g. an Adaptec 1510. I think your only chance is to
find an identical/compatible working system in a museum.
Yeah I had a LR56637 once which came with an 8Bit-ISA card working in
a Xenix System from Acer....
Problem is that the 2 or 3 guys I know who posess such a system did
not provided copies since years for different reasons (no time, no
equipment, no idea where the tape actually is).
So as the time goes, the tapes will be less and less readable - if
the drives are still working at all (probably not because of the gum
wheel....).
Looks like I should just dump the parts I have from the S8000 - sad
as it was long time my dream to get a working System 8000 :(
Greetings