12 Jul
2006
12 Jul
'06
6:16 p.m.
Early Apollo's with 8-inch drives can run Aegis SR9.7.2.
Again, I have a working DN4500 with the old SAU's for these
machines.
I also have a complete DN660 with spares, needs some work
reseating boards to get it to boot properly.
I'd like to unload all my Apollo hardware and documentation.
Anyone interested?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: *early* Domain OS available?
Al Kossow wrote:
Hmm, good point - I had 'floppy-based' stuck in my head and completely
missed that the fax we've got says that they're 8". That suggests it's a
pretty early Apollo and well before the 3000 or 4000 series.
At least if they're 8" disks then the recording density is pretty low and
so there's a good chance they're intact. OTOH, I've never tried hooking up
an 8" drive to a modern machine (i.e. PC) and tried Imagedisk (for
example) with it.
cheers
Jules
The
floppy drive appeared to be a standard PC style 5 1/4" drive.
It would be a good thing to try Imagedisk on these to try to get the
software archived.
I've had pretty good luck with reading 5" floppies. 8" is another
story...