24 Mar
2018
24 Mar
'18
4:58 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
The Unix-PC has found a new home in the hands of someone
I am sure will enjoy and appreciate it. I would expect him to
show up here sometime with questions as he tries to revive
it. I tried booting it and while it booted fine from the diagnostic
floppy and things like memory and CPU tested OK it won't boot
off the hard disk which means either the hard disk has died
(a possibility considering its age) or could just be bit rot. In
any event, he got all the floppies that went with it. Who knows,
might show up at VCF-East some day.
At least it has MFM hard drives, which means that it can use the MFM
emulator to have near infinite storage (sadly, only ~64MB at a time due to
limitations in the controller, it seems).
It would be cool if it could run something more modern, but don't those
boxes max at at 4MB or 8MB of RAM?
Warner