11 Jul
2006
11 Jul
'06
6:10 a.m.
G'Day,
On 7/11/06, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[Floppies for DomainOS]
Anyway, the machine has no OS, but it does have
install floppies (that's
another thing; I thought Domain OS came on tape by the 3xxx machines -
floppies suggest it's much older).
I have seen floppies for DomainOS 9.7 (if my memory serves me
correctly) for a DN3000 Apollo. I have installed DomainOS from floppy
but I no longer have access to them, or the machine.
I'm willing to bet that the floppies aren't in
the best of health by now
though, so figured I'd check if someone has floppy-based install media
archived anywhere before I chase this one up! (last thing we want is yet
another machine with no software to run on it :-)
Probably as slighlty more healthy than the tapes and drives. The tape
drives in the Apollos also suffered from the drive wheels turning to
goo while reading the tapes.
The floppy drive appeared to be a standard PC style 5 1/4" drive. I
seem to remember there were some utilities for writting DOS formatted
disks available at some point.
Simon
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