6 Aug
2013
6 Aug
'13
9:29 p.m.
Anybody have boot disks / application disks for the Xerox 860 IPS word processing system?
We need working ones for the MARCH museum in New Jersey. We can supply blank 8" disks
if needed.
6 Aug
6 Aug
9:48 p.m.
On 8/6/2013 6:29 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Anybody have boot disks / application disks for the
Xerox 860 IPS word processing system? We need working ones for the MARCH museum in New
Jersey. We can supply blank 8" disks if needed.
There is actually cp/m and programming languages for those. I had one
from UC Berkeley that came with them. It would boot the
cp/m banner but,
locked right after. It also locked booting the word processing
stuff
too. I don't know if the machine had issues or the disks did. A lot of
the disks that came with it were in terrible shape.
9:56 p.m.
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On Tue, 8/6/13, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
Anybody have boot disks / application
disks for the Xerox 860 IPS word processing system? We need
working ones for the MARCH museum in New Jersey. We can
supply blank 8" disks if needed.
Or, even if anyone has any images of the disks - I can write them out for Evan. Or, even
original disks, I can image/copy them - this is the sort of thing that should be on
Bitsavers (and yes, I checked, and they're not)
-Ian
10:45 p.m.
On 08/06/2013 06:29 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Anybody have boot disks / application disks for the
Xerox 860 IPS
word processing system? We need working ones for the MARCH museum in
New Jersey. We can supply blank 8" disks if needed.
I've got a disk labeled IPS System 3.2 8" SSSD.
Let me know if you want an image.
--Chuck
11:27 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/06/2013 06:29 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
There are four 8" disk images in Don Maslin's archive which appear to
be for the 860:
860-D3 SSDD8 860 (?)
860SCRCH SSDD8 860 Scratch disk
860SCSYS SSDD8 860 (?)
860TRNG SSDD8 860 Training disk
The 860SCSYS.TD0 image appears to be a system disk of some sort. The
others appear to contain word processing documents. I can send you (or
Ian) the image files, or write them to 8" disks for you.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
Anybody have boot disks / application disks for
the Xerox 860 IPS
word processing system? We need working ones for the MARCH museum in
New Jersey. We can supply blank 8" disks if needed.
I've got a disk labeled IPS System 3.2 8" SSSD.
Let me know if you want an image.
--Chuck 
11:56 p.m.
On 8/6/13 8:27 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
There are four 8" disk images in Don
Maslin's archive which appear to be for the 860:
860-D3 SSDD8 860 (?)
860SCRCH SSDD8 860 Scratch disk
860SCSYS SSDD8 860 (?)
860TRNG SSDD8 860 Training disk
probably the same as the .IMDs that I just uploaded to bitsavers
7 Aug
7 Aug
12:07 a.m.
On 08/06/2013 08:27 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
There are four 8" disk images in Don
Maslin's archive which appear
to be for the 860:
860-D3 SSDD8 860 (?)
860SCRCH SSDD8 860 Scratch disk
860SCSYS SSDD8 860 (?)
860TRNG SSDD8 860 Training disk
The 860SCSYS.TD0 image appears to be a system disk of some sort.
The others appear to contain word processing documents. I can send you
(or Ian) the image files, or write them to 8" disks for you.
Well, I probably got the 860 sample from Don way back when, as it's his
handwriting on the floppy along with my name. I didn't know if he kept
the images around.
So, Emily Litella.
--Chuck
12:40 a.m.
On 8/6/2013 9:07 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/06/2013 08:27 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
The 860 I had came with a mess of disks that were labeled in a way that
made them seem sort of specific to the machine they were for. It may
have just been to tell people where they were supposed to be returned to
but, it also may have meant that there was some sort of customization on
the boot disk for each system. Things like what monitor and devices were
attached. It all seemed to be something Xerox field people were in
charge of setting up. Very little information on those things out
there. I always thought maybe mine wouldn't boot because I didn't have
the exact right boot disk or something the boot disk expected to find
wasn't connected.
There are four 8" disk images in Don
Maslin's archive which appear
to be for the 860:
860-D3 SSDD8 860 (?)
860SCRCH SSDD8 860 Scratch disk
860SCSYS SSDD8 860 (?)
860TRNG SSDD8 860 Training disk
The 860SCSYS.TD0 image appears to be a system disk of some sort.
The others appear to contain word processing documents. I can send you
(or Ian) the image files, or write them to 8" disks for you.
Well, I probably got the 860 sample from Don way back when, as it's
his handwriting on the floppy along with my name. I didn't know if he
kept the images around.
So, Emily Litella.
--Chuck
9:22 a.m.
On 8/6/13 9:40 PM, mc68010 wrote:
The 860 I had came with a mess of disks that were
labeled in a way that made them seem sort of specific to the machine they were for.
I still have those disks, just need to dig them back out and image them. Those particular
Maslin images were just the easiest to upload. I also remember there being at least one
860
CP/M disk from him as well.
There are several hardware configurations, and at least two different resolution displays
on the 860.
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