7 Jan
2004
7 Jan
'04
2:42 p.m.
Another of today's finds. Two "Verbatim 24Mb High Capacity Flexible Disk
Servowritten and Verified 78 Sectors per Track 666 TPI". These have a hard
plastic shell with a shutter. I thought at first they were MO disks but
they're thinner plus the capacity is a lot less. I haven't figured out how
to release the shutter so I don't know what the media looks like. One disk
is label "Restricted Rights Encore Computer Corporation". It used to have
somehting typed on the label but it's all faded now and it's too faint to
read.
I've never seen these before. Does anyone know any more about them?
Joe
7 Jan
7 Jan
5:17 p.m.
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 15:42, Joe wrote:
Another of today's finds. Two "Verbatim
24Mb High Capacity Flexible
Disk Servowritten and Verified 78 Sectors per Track 666 TPI". These
have a hard plastic shell with a shutter. I thought at first they
were MO disks but they're thinner plus the capacity is a lot less. I
haven't figured out how to release the shutter so I don't know what
the media looks like. One disk is label "Restricted Rights Encore
Computer Corporation". It used to have somehting typed on the label
but it's all faded now and it's too faint to read.
I've never seen these before. Does anyone know any more about them?
Joe
Encore used to make terminal servers - called 'Annex' - which seem to be
impossible to find boot images for. If you can find a way to read
that disk, it probably has drivers if it's still intact. It'd be
useful to me, amoung others I'm sure.
Pat
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6:55 p.m.
At 06:17 PM 1/7/04 -0500, Pat wrote:
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 15:42, Joe wrote:
OK then why don't you send me your address and I'll send you the disks.
You're more like to find a drive for them than I am. I found these with a
pile of gutted VME computers (but I didn't notice the brand name of the
computers). I don't know if they came from one of those computers or not
but the next time I go back there I'll look at them closer and see if the
drive might still be there. Hopefully the drive used a SCSI interface or
something standard. FWIW the *only* thing that I did find in the computers
was a PCI/VME adapter card made by Bit3.
Joe
Another of today's finds. Two
"Verbatim 24Mb High Capacity Flexible
Disk Servowritten and Verified 78 Sectors per Track 666 TPI". These
have a hard plastic shell with a shutter. I thought at first they
were MO disks but they're thinner plus the capacity is a lot less. I
haven't figured out how to release the shutter so I don't know what
the media looks like. One disk is label "Restricted Rights Encore
Computer Corporation". It used to have somehting typed on the label
but it's all faded now and it's too faint to read.
I've never seen these before. Does anyone know any more about them?
Joe
Encore used to make terminal servers - called 'Annex' - which seem to be
impossible to find boot images for. If you can find a way to read
that disk, it probably has drivers if it's still intact. It'd be
useful to me, amoung others I'm sure.
10 Jan
10 Jan
3:19 a.m.
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 19:55, Joe wrote:
At 06:17 PM 1/7/04 -0500, Pat wrote:
I'd prefer if someone with one of those drives got the disk : ) but if
one doesn't show up in the next few days, I'll send that to you
offlist.
Pat
--
Purdue University ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 15:42, Joe wrote:
OK then why don't you send me your address and I'll send you the
disks. You're more like to find a drive for them than I am. I found
these with a pile of gutted VME computers (but I didn't notice the
brand name of the computers). I don't know if they came from one of
those computers or not but the next time I go back there I'll look at
them closer and see if the drive might still be there. Hopefully the
drive used a SCSI interface or something standard. FWIW the *only*
thing that I did find in the computers was a PCI/VME adapter card
made by Bit3. Another of today's finds. Two
"Verbatim 24Mb High Capacity
Flexible Disk Servowritten and Verified 78 Sectors per Track 666
TPI". These have a hard plastic shell with a shutter. I thought at
first they were MO disks but they're thinner plus the capacity is
a lot less. I haven't figured out how to release the shutter so I
don't know what the media looks like. One disk is label
"Restricted Rights Encore Computer Corporation". It used to have
somehting typed on the label but it's all faded now and it's too
faint to read.
I've never seen these before. Does anyone know any more about
them?
Joe
Encore used to make terminal servers - called 'Annex' - which seem
to be impossible to find boot images for. If you can find a way
to read that disk, it probably has drivers if it's still intact.
It'd be useful to me, amoung others I'm sure. 
7 Jan
7 Jan
6:13 p.m.
You found Satan's (Santa's) Accounting Logs on disk! lol. Well, with track
666, nothing good would come from that, grin.
Possible that it may be to a proprietary setup for corporations? I heard
back in the late 80's a few companies were getting overly paranoid about
piracy / corporate espionage and hired a firm from CT to make a proprietary
removable disc drive and key system that would only operate if the two were
together and matched up. never actually saw it though, just rumors and
stories from old IBM contractors and the like.
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 03:42 PM 1/7/2004, you wrote:
Another of today's finds. Two "Verbatim
24Mb High Capacity Flexible Disk
Servowritten and Verified 78 Sectors per Track 666 TPI". These have a hard
plastic shell with a shutter. I thought at first they were MO disks but
they're thinner plus the capacity is a lot less. I haven't figured out how
to release the shutter so I don't know what the media looks like. One disk
is label "Restricted Rights Encore Computer Corporation". It used to have
somehting typed on the label but it's all faded now and it's too faint to
read.
I've never seen these before. Does anyone know any more about them?
Joe
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