20 Sep
2005
20 Sep
'05
3:25 a.m.
I completely missed this item on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5226857402
It's an Altos 586 system with all the system install diskettes.
I have an Altos 586 and would REALLY like to have diskettes to reinstall
the OS 'stock' (mine has a limited version of Xenix with an 'office
suite' on it as well). Does anybody know this buyer?
20 Sep
20 Sep
3:35 a.m.
Scott Stevens declared on Monday 19 September 2005 10:25 pm:
I completely missed this item on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5226857402
It's an Altos 586 system with all the system install diskettes.
I have an Altos 586 and would REALLY like to have diskettes to
reinstall the OS 'stock' (mine has a limited version of Xenix with an
'office suite' on it as well). Does anybody know this buyer?
I've got a 586 and I think I've got install disks for it somewhere, from
a friend who passed away a year ago. I'll see if I can find them, and
get some images made.
Pat
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21 Sep
21 Sep
12:29 a.m.
Which reminds me...
I have an ALTOS TERMINAL, with a native mode, I think, and a VT-100
emulaton, or was it VT-220? I forget. I used it on my 11 before I gave it
to Al. Worked very well for DEC stuff except for one game where it didn't
respect double-high, double-wide characters exactly right. Maybe it was
called the Altos-1. I think I even have a manual somewhere. I'd like to
unload it, price: cheap.
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I completely missed this item on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5226857402
It's an Altos 586 system with all the system install diskettes.
I have an Altos 586 and would REALLY like to have diskettes to
reinstall the OS 'stock' (mine has a limited version of Xenix with an
'office suite' on it as well). Does anybody know this buyer?
I've got a 586 and I think I've got install disks for it somewhere, from
a friend who passed away a year ago. I'll see if I can find them, and
get some images made.
Pat
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Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org 
20 Sep
20 Sep
1:26 p.m.
Scott Stevens wrote:
I have an Altos 586 and would REALLY like to have
diskettes to reinstall
the OS 'stock' (mine has a limited version of Xenix with an 'office
suite' on it as well). Does anybody know this buyer?
I'd like a copy of the install media for my Altos 386, or any other
information about it...
Gordon.
22 Sep
22 Sep
12:55 a.m.
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:26:30 +0100
Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
Is your Altos a 386-processor system? Those are much newer than the 586
which is a five-user 8086 system.
Good news-
I've heard back from the person who won the bidding on eBay. He didn't
get a working boot diskette, but he did get (this is what has me excited
about this) the Development Tool diskettes. With what Pat has said he
probably has and these other disks, we may be able to pull together a
good robust system setup for the Altos 586. I pointed him at Dave
Dunfield's site where there's a boot diskette image, and recommended he
contact Dave through the site about getting his disks imaged and
available. He also got a lot of paper documentation.
It will be really great if the OS and a C compiler comes together out of
this. Then we can start porting over the classic UNIX sources and make
these Altos boxes come alive again in a real way (a vintage UUCP
network??).
Scott
I have an
Altos 586 and would REALLY like to have diskettes to
reinstall the OS 'stock' (mine has a limited version of Xenix with
an 'office suite' on it as well). Does anybody know this buyer?
I'd like a copy of the install media for my Altos 386, or any other
information about it...
Gordon.
24 Sep
24 Sep
2:30 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:27:40 +0100
Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
the
Scott Stevens wrote:
> Is your Altos a 386-processor system? Those are much newer than the
586
which is a
five-user 8086 system.
Yes, it is. It has a 386 and a 186 on the main board, and a 286 for network and additional serial port board.
Gordon.
Sounds a little like the Sun 386i, being a non-commodity 386 machine
that runs a 'proprietary' OS. Does anybody know what an Altos 386 was
designed to run?
25 Sep
25 Sep
7:46 a.m.
Sounds a little like the Sun 386i, being a
non-commodity 386 machine
that runs a 'proprietary' OS. Does anybody know what an Altos 386 was
designed to run?
Well, it seems to run some sort of SysV-ish Unix. Unfortunately I can't
seem to get the C compiler to, well, compile stuff. I can't remember the
exact error because I haven't played for a while.
Gordon.
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