Picked up an Altos 8600 that I bought on eBay yesterday, amazingly the Xenix actually came up, but the drive failed as I was tarring off the file system. I had another Quantum 2040, put it in, tried to run the formatter, but it says to call Altos, asks for a confirmation but just returns to the menu if you type 'y' 'Y' or 'Yes' so I'm assuming there is a magic word you have to enter. This is the same controller that the Z80 system uses (8000-14) so I'm guessing someone must have run into this before. I'm going to paw through the diagnostic binary to see if there is something that looks magical. Sound familiar?

Picked up an Altos 8600 that I bought on eBay yesterday, amazingly the Xenix actually came up, but the drive failed as I was tarring off the file system. I had another Quantum 2040, put it in, tried to run the formatter, but it says to call Altos, asks for a confirmation but just returns to the menu if you type 'y' 'Y' or 'Yes' so I'm assuming there is a magic word you have to enter. This is the same controller that the Z80 system uses (8000-14) so I'm guessing someone must have run into this before. I'm going to paw through the diagnostic binary to see if there is something that looks magical. Sound familiar?