5 Jun
2007
5 Jun
'07
12:40 a.m.
One other thing to note: As far as I know (and please, please correct
me if I'm wrong -- I'd love to be wrong in this case :)) if you find
yourself in the unfortunate situation of having wiped/unbootable drives
in your 3640, your only real option to get Genera reloaded on the drives
is to send them out to Dave Schmidt and have him do the install for
you. (It cost me $300 for a Genera license for my 3630 and to have it
installed on the drive I sent to him.)
To the best of my knowledge the software necessary to format the drive
and write out the bad block map, etc, is still Symbolics-proprietary and
has not been released publicly. (I believe Dave referred to this as the
"Chatsworth" Genera distribution when I asked.) If anyone knows
different or has a copy of software that will do this, I'd love to get a
copy -- I'm out of space on my 3630 and I have several compatible ESDI
drives, but no means to make them usable to the machine. Almost ready
to send them out to Dave, but not quite yet :).
- Josh
Brad Parker wrote:
"Keys" wrote:
Had a Symbolics 3640 dropped off on Sunday
evening along with a Symbolics
model OP36-DISP display. Missing are the keyboard, FD, and all the needed
cables (power cord also). I opened the front door and saw two hard drives
mounted inside. Will also be looking for manuals and some software. Anyone
would information please email me.
I'm not sure abot power on a 3640. My 3630 has stock power cord. The
"refrigerator" 3600's are another matter - those are circular but you
can make an adapter easily.
(if I remember right the 3640 is just an "L" machine - i.e. stock TTL;
the 3630 is a G machine, which has FPGA's)
You're going to need a keyboard. And more important, a cable from the
monitor to the machine.
If you are luck it will just boot. Does it have a cart tape drive? if
so, assume the roller is goo. I would not use it unless you replace the
rubber parts.
I would get in touch with David Schmidt in VA. He can get a keyboard
for you and a monitor cable.
-brad