Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390

4 Jun 2018

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   Either way,
COOL!!!

 It sounds like you're doing some good computer archaeology /  preservation.
 > 
Just to say I now have a bootable copy of the OS on SD card. I got caught out because OS2
wildcarding works like UNIX wild carding, not MSDOS wild carding.
So in order to back up the "C" drive you need "XCOPY C:\*   ...". I
instinctively used "*.*" which misses out a whole bunch of files, especially
those used by the code page conversion routines.

Whilst it boots cleanly (and quietly). The machine is noticeably slower on SD card so I
think I might have to try a RAID or other fast/wide SCSI solution once I have good backups
of the other drives.

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  OI think there are plenty of P390 boxes around, and
most of the software is
 available, but its interesting to a Mainframe OS on real hardware.
 The Hercules emulator on a modern (Core i3 or Core I5) PC is much faster
 than the P390.

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 Grant. . . .
 unix || die  
 Dave 
Dave

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Restoring a PC Server 500 P/390