Jay Wrote .....
Jerry wrote....
My Zebra says 2510 on the botton sticker if I
remember correctly
has a 8" drive and a Qic Tape.
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.
Thats it, Very Nice machine I ment a 8" Hard drive not a Floppy
Still Boots
pick OS. I have
the same tape you have but did not know how to to use it.
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.
Yes, It is The Dealer Tape. Label say
Zebra/Pick Operatiing System, Revison 3.3b, 750/1350/1750/3760
Version 53a00124a01-a, Dealer Sysgen Tape Qic 24 Format
Copyright 1980 Pick Systems with General Automation at the bottom
The problem I have with booting is that it has Disk errors
and I would guess it is no stable enough to make a bootable
tape if that is even possible.
Do you have any of the manuals on these or OS on how to
Make a tape ?? I would like to try and see if this tape
will even work. I was able to "DD" it with out errors
My machine
model did not show up on the label of the tape either.
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.
The tape drive I have will Only write to a DC300A. it errors on
a DC600A
Jay
Jerry
Jerry Wright
g-wright at
att.net