27 Apr
2008
27 Apr
'08
8:35 a.m.
On Sunday 27 April 2008 10:41, Dave McGuire wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Nope. The one machine I have of that brand is my Exec, and it hasn't
been powered up in ages, though it did a fairly nice job of 24x80 (or
was that 25x80?) on that little 7" monitor. Most of my work on O-1s
though was back in the 1985-1990 time frame, and I didn't take many
pictures of anything at all, never mind digital stuff. :-)
Understood. :) I've never actually seen an Exec in person. It seemed
to be a pretty nice box from their ads in Byte, but of course that's the
point of advertisements.
I like it, but those single-sided drives were an annoyance. :-)
Unfortunately the DS upgrades that were out there were seriously incompatible
with the HD setup I later ended up with.
Yep. But it was also a kicker after I'd installed
the screen-pac
for somebody
to see 104 columns on that itty bitty screen. :-)
Eeeeeek! I'd love to see that. Got any pics? Hmm, bummer...The hard drive in my Kaypro 10 seems
to have died. It
worked the last time I powered it up (~1.5 years ago) but now it just
sits there and blinks the access LED. I can hear it spinning up. I
wonder if it has a stiction problem.
I have the external box with ST-225 sitting here for the Exec, but haven't
fired it up in ages. I bought that drive new in 1985 or so, and really hope
it still works. :-)
I also have a different box that plugs into this Kaypro 4 I have that has a
pair of ST251s in it, talk about space! :-) I haven't fired that one up in
ages, either, and probably should, as those disks I have around here
somewhere for the BBII are in Kaypro SS format, it'd be nice to get that
info off those (assuming they're still readable) and into the server so I can
play with 'em a bit.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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