11 Jul
2006
11 Jul
'06
7:50 a.m.
Simon Fryer wrote:
Possibly. We've got 10.x (.4 or .2, can't recall which) on good tapes though,
plus I've got archives here - but that release won't run on the earlier
hardware (I think it'll technically work on the 3000 and 4000 series, but it's
probably a real memory hog on those boxes)
We've got a few good QIC drives - no shortage yet (I make a point of seeking
those out when stuff's being dumped!); seems like only about 50% of the ones
out there suffer from the goo problem - but it seems spread across all
manufacturers and ages, strangely.
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 :-)
Probably as slighlty more healthy than the tapes and drives. The tape
drives in the Apollos also suffered from the drive wheels turning to
goo while reading the tapes. The floppy drive appeared to be a standard PC style 5
1/4" drive.
Yep, wouldn't surprise me - although it's possibly driven by a SCSI bridge
board (e.g. OMTI 5000 series) for some Apollos rather than being a native
controller (I think the 3xxx and 4xxx machines don't have SCSI and are either
ST412 or ESDI - presumably same goes for even earlier machines)
cheers
Jules