30 May
2000
30 May
'00
9:41 a.m.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Steve Robertson wrote:
The system is a "Lasor Computer" (note the
spelling) is housed in a
desk-sized cabinent and weighs about 300 LBS. I don't know if it's true but,
[...]
It has two 8" floppies, 2 10-MB hard drives, and
16 serial ports. All the
major components are mounted in 19" trays so, supposedly everything could go
Nice find! Wow, that weighs more than my Dynabyte 5100 system!
Are those 8" hard drives?
Out of curiosity, has anyone else had the experience of finding 8"
hard drives to be noisier than 14" hard drives?
According to the DOCs, the system runs "MLX"
which stands for "Multiuser
Executive". supposedly, it can read CPM formatted disks. I'm not sure if it
will boot CPM or execute CPM apps though.
Could that be renamed MP/M or a variant of MP/M?
When I tried to boot the system, it got a failure on
the boot drive so, I
had to do some microsurgery. Seems the heads had stuck to the platters and
it took a little coaxing to get the platters spinning again. Hopefully, I
didn't hurt the platters too much.
What's needed is a good, inexpensive, portable "clean room box." A
while back, I saw one of these somewhere, but it wasn't something
marketed to hobbyists and I doubt that it was inexpensive. It was
basically a plexiglas box with filtered air and attached gloves.
Hmmm, I wonder... some pieces of alumimum, plexiglas, glue, rubber
gloves, HEPA filter and strong exhaust fan... cheap mini clean room!
Ok, not perfect, but worth a try for fixing some hard disk problems
when a drive is inoperable?
I finally did get the system to boot OK but, now
I'm getting a "Password"
Ok, not MP/M apparently, or so it appears.
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R. D. Davis
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