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.
I'd prefer if someone with one of those drives got the disk : ) but if
one doesn't show up in the next few days, I'll send that to you
offlist.
Pat
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