rarest computers. was: RE: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation

3 Aug 2004

...
   Whitechapel
MG-1, a 32016 Unix machine, made in Whitechapel, London.  
 Any install media? We have a couple at the museum; one's probably viable 
I do, but, wait for this, on 3.5" floppies. The standard MG1 floppy drive 
is an 80 cylinder 5.25" unit, and can be replaced by a '720K' 3.5" unit.

That's what the previous owner did to my machine. 

AFAIK if you image-copied the 3.5" disks I have (and it's quite a number 
of them) back to 80 cylinder 5.25" disks, then you'd have the standard 
installation kit. Or you could pop a 3.5" drive in your machine -- If I 
rememebr the schemaitcs correclty, though, you can only have one floppy 
drive in there at a time.

...
  We have docs for them (no service manuals
unfortunately) but no install 
I have a manual of schematics, service notes, etc. Not sure it would 
stand photocopying though, but at least the diagrams do exist.

-tony

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rarest computers. was: RE: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation