10 May
2013
10 May
'13
10:50 a.m.
do you have a way to image the tape, so that people could see what might
be going on. There were a lot of coprocessor system boards for PDP's
that were out there, and this might well be just a tape to install OS2,
or a backup of an OS2 image hosted on such a board.
I worked with a group who had a system implemented and running on an
NS32000 board, so it would have appeared on that half inch tape that
there was a 32000 unix system running on that host. however it would
not have been the case.
I also suspect w/o seeing more of the thread / info that there is a good
chance a system that was scrapped would have had such a unique card
pulled before being pushed out the door. I know when I had to support
systems with unique addons, I'd make sure that the basic systems ran and
store them and when sending them out, would add on or merge as needed
special hardware.
thanks
Jim
On 5/10/2013 10:27 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 10 May 2013, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
You'll have to ask Jeremey Fine,
He never did boot that PDP-11 to see what as on it.lazy SOB. :)
We are sorry that
he hasn't done so, presumably due to more pressing life.
as for the TK50 I still have it, but I'm not
willing to ship it to
anyone.the directory contents are intriguing, but not enough to be
proof.
Absolutely!
We are still waiting for you to share that directory content information.
We would love to see what filenames are on it!
the smoking gun would be to see what that PDP had on it.
I think Mr. Fine should give me back the PDP if
he has no intention
ofbooting it
Certainly. Or perhaps others in the same geographic area could
assist in
getting it bootable.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com