12 Jul
2006
12 Jul
'06
6:05 p.m.
I've got some older Apollo's, some still have 8-inch floppies.
3xxx machines could support 5 1/4 inch drives.
I ~may~ have Aegis on 8-inch disks. I do have a running DN4500 with
most of the SAU's for early Apollo hardware.
This would let you boot diskless from my 4500, and then INVOL your
drive.
----- 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 9:35 AM
Subject: *early* Domain OS available?
Quick check - does anyone have an earlier floppy-based release of Domain
OS for Apollo machines archived?
We've been offered an Apollo, but no idea yet of which model - all the
details say is that it dates from when Apollo were independent (which
possibly still means it's something like a 3000, I suspect - weren't HP
not really involved until the 400 series?)
Anyway, the machine has no OS, but it does have install floppies (that's
another thing; I thought Domain OS came on tape by the 3xxx machines -
floppies suggest it's much older).
I'm willing to bet that the floppies aren't in the best of health by now
though, so figured I'd check if someone has floppy-based install media
archived anywhere before I chase this one up! (last thing we want is yet
another machine with no software to run on it :-)
cheers
Jules