ADDS Mentor 2000 - Big success!

Thanks Doc - and everyone else who has responded positively. I too am of this opinion - I find the threads where someone is actually working with a classic system to be most interesting, and in my mind more on-topic than many other threads which pass through unchallenged. I doubt this will go on that much longer, as I am getting "on my feet" with the machine now... But if anyone finds my reports and questions objectionable, let me know and I'll take it off-list. Took the tape drive out this evening and gave it a good cleaning ... It's an Archive Model 5945C, which is a QIC02 60M drive that uses DC600A tapes (I've got lots of tapes for it). A note in the operations manual says if you do a binary (image) backup of a drive much more than 30M you will need multiple tapes - which sounds about right... Anyway, popped in a DC600A and told the Diagnostic monitor to write a Full image of the drive - and it's happily whirr... whirr... whirr..ing away as I type - I have the feeling it will take a while.... The operations manual also documents a SYS-GEN command for building a SYSGEN tape from the running system, and also a file oriented system backup (instead of the Image) procedure ... If all goes well, I will perform these procedures in turn, and then make a second set of them all. Hints on how to get the system to read the entire tape without actually restoring anything to the hard-drive would be most welcome... This is proving to be quite an interesting system (discovered another password protected "higher level" monitor accessable the system configuration block which is stored on the hard drive) - fortunately the password to this one is "fixed" and is mentioned in the operations manual. The documents I have are fairly thin, but they do have a lot of the information I have needed - I may scan them an post them with the machine when I put it on the web site. Dave -- dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html