This is unfortunate. I will keep my fingers crossed.
-Dave
On Jun 28, 2009, at 6:15 PM, SPC wrote:
At this stage almost impossible. I shall do a cleaning
of the
diskette drive
tomorrow and we'll see.
But I'm not optimistic.
Sergio
2009/6/28 Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> On Jun 28, 2009, at 3:57 PM, SPC wrote:
>
>> Well, finally came the time to install one find from over a
>> couple of
>> years
>> ago: Five floppies with the MS Basic Interpreter and Compiler for
>> Personal
>> Computers running Xenix 286.
>>
>> I plan to install it in the Altos 586. The software don't have
>> special
>> indications about the SCO Xenix or so. The worst that could
>> happen is that
>> it don't work.
>>
>> But I plan to do some disk images of the floppies previously with
>> Imagedisk.
>> The Xenix default for installation is /dev/fd048ds9
>>
>
> Wow...if you can read these disks, I would LOVE to have copies of
> those.
>
> -Dave
>
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> Dave McGuire
> Port Charlotte, FL
>
>
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL