General Automation Zebra!

Jerry wrote.... Nice to know there's 2500's around still. I sold a lot of 'em :) However, in the entire history of General Automation's Zebra Pick line, I was pretty confident none were ever sold with 8" floppy (or floppies at all for that matter). How odd. I'd love to see a picture of this. The 2500's were tabletop machines, perhaps around 20 inches wide, 25 inches deep, 8 inches tall... had a creame/beige side & top (one piece) and a black plastic front. I seem to recall only two buttons on front, power and reset. Are you sure it's a "dealer.sysgen" tape, and not just a tape that was MADE by a dealer.sysgen tape? I did see a lot of folks label the output of the dealer.sysgen account as a 'sysgen' tape which it really isn't. If you can boot off the tape (BOOT CT from executive), it's not a dealer.sysgen. Dealer.sysgen tapes were just account saves and useless without a machine already running. You could always put it in and do a "dummy SEL-RESTORE" and see what it pulls off. I seem to recall there was something special/different about the QIC tape drives in the oldest zebras vs. all the later zebras... a different recording method or something making them bidirectionally incompatible. The sysgen account could create tapes for these machines, but only if the target machine was retrofitted with the newer style QIC drive. I'm sure the 2500 was one of the old style drives normally. The 1750 could be either style. Everything else was the later style I believe. Jay