28 May
2012
28 May
'12
3:40 a.m.
I dug into my storage and finally located a c4p-mf which I obtained years ago. Through a
separate transaction I finally obtained a box of diskettes labeled OSI.
After all these years I tried starting the machine. There seems to be garbage on the
screen which clears when hitting the break key. Unfortunately I don't seem to have a
menu after that.
Therefore I haven't risked inserting any of the floppies in the machine.
If I can get this machine working I'd be glad to make copies of the media.
I guess my next step will be to open the machine and reset the components in the sockets
unless anyone else has any suggestions.
Best Regards,
George Rachor
Hillsboro, Oregon
george at rachors.com
On May 20, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Philip Lord wrote:
Hi,
Did you ever figure out you dilemma regarding your lack of Ohio Scientific floppy media?
I'm basically in the same place having a disk system, but no floppies. I've even
tried 'building' a floppy using disk images found on the net, but the process
seems almost impossible and I ultimately failed.
I've been requesting in various places and forums for anyone who can make me some
copies of their working media, but no one has replied. this is certainly a sad state of
affairs, and I worry that if too much more time passes then we may loose all working
media.to ravages of time and may loose the ability to make new OSI floppies.
I have also been helping develop a paddle board that will basically allow OSI users to
replace their old and dying original drives with something more modern like a 3.5"
disk drive. We have the first prototypes of the board in but I have thus far failed to get
it working and need to do some further troubleshooting.
In the future I really would like to build a database of software and disk images and
find some way for diskless OSI users to bootstrap and create working floppies.
Anyway, excuse the rant
Cheers
Phil