9 May
2008
9 May
'08
12:52 p.m.
Jacob Dahl Pind wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Mark Davidson wrote:
What model? Although my model 700 is likely staying back in England (too heavy
to ship, unfortunately), I think I might have backups of the hard drives here
with me in the US and can have a look if needed. They're raw 'dd' dumps, but I
expect they'll work to an identical-or-larger drive.
NCR Tower... yes, I used to work for a company
that had several of
those for
running RM/COBOL. Interesting little machines. I *think* they also
had a
special OS just for RM work. I haven't seen one of these in a long time.
I got a ncr tower32 some time ago from a friend, was my intention to
make a backup of its hardrives sadly the psu survied only one powering
up, and given my limited space for storage I decied to pull all cards,
backplates and hardrives from it, hope one day maybe to figure out what
the pinout for the psu was and try to powering the whole lot up again.
I did once figure out the pinout for one of the 600 models for someone as
theirs had a broken PSU - I'll have a look to see if I still have it. It might
be model-specific though; I know that PSU was different to the one in my 700.
If anything else fails at the very least try to get
the harddrives
dumped, still searching for a mfm controler for that job though, Have a
2090 mfm card for my amiga systmes, but I havent been able to make that
talk to those 200mb mfm drives the ncr used.
Oh. That'll teach me to reply before reading the whole message :-) Sounds like
yours was a 4xx/5xx/6xx then, not a 7xx/8xx (which were SCSI).
Note that the data on the 700's disks was byte-swapped (i.e. "foobar"
appears
as "ofbora"), so it needed converting before modern software (Linux in my
case) would make sense of it - your disk contents may well be the same. I
can't remember now if Linux supported NCR's partition layout right off, or if
I had to hack that.
cheers
Jules