8 May
2012
8 May
'12
1:06 p.m.
Somewhere in my pile I might have a pertec disk drive manual. They
started up trying to market the tape and disk products one last time
before the CMC crash brought Pertec to its knees, and we evaluated both
at a company I worked at.
I haven't seen the box with the manuals either, but I know I have it. I
can't promise anything, but i can try a search with some assistance from
a friend to burrow thru my places out here.
I will also send off to a friend in Australia that worked for GA when
they made Pick equipment. Would the system be a Pick system they
marketed? If so he may have access to the software from that side of
the Pacific. When GA was imploding, the Aussies were not so stupid as
to fold when they were told to because though they were "GA" they
weren't actually the same entitly but were semi independent. So they
may still have some stuff.
Jim
On 5/8/2012 8:55 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 5/8/12 8:17 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Christian Corti wrote:
It was near the end of Pertec's life making disk drives. I remember
having a manual, but it would be with a box of other SMD drive
manuals I haven't seen in over 15 years. There are a bunch of other
mid 80's drive manuals that are hard to find, that was why I
started trying to save them when I saw them. Looking back, I should
have grabbed more of the Priam and DTC docs as they were dumped
into the surplus channels back in the day as well.
Jim Stevens may know of a stash of that kind of stuff in LA. There
were still a couple of places up around where Pertec and Kennedy
were that were still maintaining drives as of five years ago. I
visited one of them to get the front loading Kennedy triple density
96xx series service manuals back then, and they had two Gaylords full
of old disk and tape manuals.
I'm looking for information (cabling, jumper
settings) for a Pertec
8" SMD drive, model DX332 (full model number: DX332-2-D-01).
Is that drive really *that* rare?