3 Oct
2015
3 Oct
'15
5:18 a.m.
From: Josh Dersch
a currently non-working 1186 with an installation of
the Lyric release
of Interlisp-D installed on the drive
...
I have made a disk image of the ad-hoc font disk I created
Might be a good idea to make an image of the entire Lyric hard drive, in case
that drive fails, we won't lose the bits.
Noel
3 Oct
3 Oct
10:53 a.m.
I am the friend with the broken 1186, i've narrowed down the problem to the MPB/CPU
board, which never successfully loads the microcode. I have done a little bit of work with
it but need to reinstall the OS on my logic analyzer to see if I can get further. :) The
machine wasn't cheap so that was a huge bummer but it's otherwise complete.
I intend to take an image of the drive using David G's excellent MFM emulator, and
would be more than happy to post it when I do. Sadly I recently moved and all my tools and
related miscellaneous shit are in boxes so it will take me a little bit to get to.
Don't want to get off topic, but some images I've already taken from other
computers using this tool are uploaded here:
http://x.quaalud.es/images/
Cheers,
- Ian
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 3, 2015, at 05:18, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
From: Josh
Dersch
a currently non-working 1186 with an installation
of the Lyric release
of Interlisp-D installed on the drive
...
I have made a disk image of the ad-hoc font disk I created
Might be a good idea to make an image of the entire Lyric hard drive, in case
that drive fails, we won't lose the bits.
Noel 
4 Oct
4 Oct
9:48 a.m.
On 10/3/15 10:53 AM, Ian Finder wrote:
I intend to take an image of the drive using David
G's excellent MFM emulator
File-level is probably adequate. I have dozens of original distribution
disk sets for the 1186; Koto, Lyric and Medley. I dug out the Koto and
Lyric display font disks this morning, still haven't turned up any for
Medley. I don't know if I have full distributions for Medley 1.1 and 1.2
12:51 p.m.
Can and will do Re: FS level backup-- Thanks, Al.
I am indeed in Seattle and a MPB board would be massively appreciated, let me know what I
should do.
I'm a little bit weary of the IOB as well, as someone wrote "BAD" on it.
(Actually it came in Josh's machine), but during our testing it appeared to work, and
have a closer mfg. date to my machine. I think the person who marked it as such wasn't
at the top of their troubleshooting game.
If it's total toast Josh will have to trade me back for mine ;)
Cheers,
- Ian
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 4, 2015, at 09:48, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 10/3/15 10:53 AM, Ian Finder wrote:
I intend to take an image of the drive using David G's excellent MFM emulator
File-level is probably adequate. I have dozens of original distribution disk sets for the
1186; Koto, Lyric and Medley. I dug out the Koto and Lyric display font disks this
morning, still haven't turned up any for Medley. I don't know if I have full
distributions for Medley 1.1 and 1.2
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