28 Sep
2016
28 Sep
'16
4:56 a.m.
On 27 September 2016 at 17:21, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
How would you suggest they do that? They have one disk
drive.
There is a ton of discussion in here about imaging old media.
There are also disk execisers and the like. It's not big by modern
standards, and it's fairly well-documented; read the contents into RAM
on something more modern, write it back to the other disk?
This is the perennial problem with the Alto, it
expects there is a network
so you can do things like network copydisk.
I'm sure they'll get to that eventually, no?
They also need to lubricate the wick on the drive,
which I told them to do but
it isn't clear if they bothered in their excitement. They also need to clean the
pins on the Winchester connectors on the drive. I ran into this bringing up one
of my drives on an exerciser yesterday.
Ah. Could that be why disconnecting and reconnecting the cable seems
to have helped, do you think?
Also, if they have a Lyon optical mouse, they need to
come up with a pad, I pointed
them to a paper Dick wrote that shows the hexagonal pattern in enough detail to draw
a new one.
Indeed. I have successfully laser-printed a SUN optical mouse pad
before now, IIRC.
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