7 Aug
2013
7 Aug
'13
4:40 a.m.
On 8/6/2013 9:07 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/06/2013 08:27 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
The 860 I had came with a mess of disks that were labeled in a way that
made them seem sort of specific to the machine they were for. It may
have just been to tell people where they were supposed to be returned to
but, it also may have meant that there was some sort of customization on
the boot disk for each system. Things like what monitor and devices were
attached. It all seemed to be something Xerox field people were in
charge of setting up. Very little information on those things out
there. I always thought maybe mine wouldn't boot because I didn't have
the exact right boot disk or something the boot disk expected to find
wasn't connected.
There are four 8" disk images in Don
Maslin's archive which appear
to be for the 860:
860-D3 SSDD8 860 (?)
860SCRCH SSDD8 860 Scratch disk
860SCSYS SSDD8 860 (?)
860TRNG SSDD8 860 Training disk
The 860SCSYS.TD0 image appears to be a system disk of some sort.
The others appear to contain word processing documents. I can send you
(or Ian) the image files, or write them to 8" disks for you.
Well, I probably got the 860 sample from Don way back when, as it's
his handwriting on the floppy along with my name. I didn't know if he
kept the images around.
So, Emily Litella.
--Chuck