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I'm waiting on the key for the rear doors to arrive in the mail
before we can actually get inside (the cardcage is mounted backwards,
so the boards are accessible from the rear).
Unfortunately the OS drive has long gone. These things use SMD drvies
(and we have a few spare SMD disks kicking around) so that's not too
much of a problem, but OS install media is possibly going to be tricky.
Oooh, jealous. If you strike out on keys, I should have one I
could copy. Don't forget that Prime SMD drives were formatted with
2080 byte sectors. As far as I know, all Primes were rigged with
the card cage as you describe.
My 2550 sits in the garage awaiting time, SMD disk, and install media,
so if you get lucky on the latter, I'd love to mooch a copy. I have a
few tapes laying around that I'm having trouble reading -- anyone have
an affordable program that reads MAGSAV tapes? Theoretically they
contain my home directory, our utilities collection, may be some
Prime Australia tools. Not sure if I have OS source or compilers.
Pretty sure I don't have install tapes though.
Also on the project list, digging out the boxes of manuals and building
a list of what I have.
De