11 Dec
2000
11 Dec
'00
3:26 p.m.
Hi,
I'm trying to help someone find a copy of a
8" boot disk for an Altos 8600.
Thanks,
--Doug
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!],
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to
apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke
such a question. --- Charles Babbage
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Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
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12 Dec
12 Dec
11:31 a.m.
Doug Coward skrev:
Hi,
I'm trying to help someone find a copy of a
8" boot disk for an Altos 8600.
Hmm, where does one find eight-inch disks these days? I've only seen an
eight-incher with my own eyes once in my life. 5? inchers aren't that uncommon
if you look around, but the 8" ones seem to have been outmoded a great while
ago...
--
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Ed ecco un altro esempio in cui le sigle italiane e francesi sono uguali ...
non avrei mai creduto di poter un giorno dire una cosa del genere, ma secondo
me Crostina D'Avena canta meglio.
Tacchan s?gar den franska signaturen till Creamy Mami
11:58 a.m.
Thanks for pitching in for me Doug! I am the someone looking for an 8"
boot disk. Here some details:
The manual says the OS's written for it are: Xenix, Oasis-16, CP/M-86, and
MP/M-86. The drive is SS/DD, but the boot track needs to be SD because the
boot loader can handle only SD. I am also looking for its diagnostics disk
called ADX. The system is designed like a file-server.
The machine can't boot off its 8" hard drive (Quantum '40), and I fear
it has a head crash. I found after a few power-ups that the belt was off
the motor spindle. The damn belt has to be held in place until the drive
gets to speed, otherwise it promptly comes off at power-up. Anyone with a
solution for this stupid hard drive?
Thanks,
Edwin
At 06:26 PM 12/11/2000 -0800, you wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to help someone find a copy of a
8" boot disk for an Altos 8600.
Thanks,
--Doug
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Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
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