17 Apr
2001
17 Apr
'01
1:38 a.m.
I have a couple 8" floppy disks that. I believe that the system used for
these diskettes was Tektronik 8560 System and these OS was Tnix.
I want to transfer data from those diskettes to another media. Does
anyone know or have any recommendations?
Thanks
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17 Apr
17 Apr
2:14 a.m.
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, giang m chu wrote:
I have a couple 8" floppy disks that. I believe
that the system used for
these diskettes was Tektronik 8560 System and these OS was Tnix.
I want to transfer data from those diskettes to another media. Does
anyone know or have any recommendations?
George,
Your best bet is to transfer the data to a PC over a serial port. You'll
have to figure out how to open the files from Tnix and send them to a
serial port hooked to a PC with a null modem cable. You would then
collect them with a program on the other end.
This will vary in difficulty based on what the data is (binary or text?)
and what kind of programming or file transfer tools Tnix offers you.
Please feel free to e-mail me if you need further help.
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2:49 p.m.
I have access to a couple of 8560s but I'm fairly certain that there are
no drives of any kind on them. Were the drives optional????
Are those hard sectored disks? All of the 8" floppy disks that I've seen
for the Tektronix are. That's going to make it harder to find something
that will read them.
Joe
At 10:38 PM 4/16/01 -0700, you wrote:
I have a couple 8" floppy disks that. I believe
that the system used for
these diskettes was Tektronik 8560 System and these OS was Tnix.
I want to transfer data from those diskettes to another media. Does
anyone know or have any recommendations?
Thanks
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18 Apr
18 Apr
12:15 a.m.
At 07:29 PM 4/17/01 +0100, you wrote:
I guess I'll have to go look. They're all stored elsewhere and I
haven't looked at them in a while. I've never tried to fire any of them up
so it's anybody's guess as to wheather or not they work or if they have any
software in them. They do have DEC 11/23 CPU cards in them. I opened one
one time and pulled the cards out and checked them. The CPU is the only
DEC card in them and all the other cards use an entirely different
connector. I know one of them has a 68000 pod on it and I think one of the
others has a Z-8000 pod and I think there are a couple of loose pods
(6809?) floating around too.
Joe
I have access to a couple of 8560s but I'm fairly certain that there are
no drives of any kind on them. Were the drives optional????
These machines are in 2 boxes from what I rmember. One of them contains
things like the in-circuit emulator boards, a small logic analyser, EPROM
programmer, and so on. Many of those features are optional -- you
configured the unit with the bits you needed.
The other box is a PDP11-based [1] computer. It has 2 8" drive bays.
Standard configurations are 2 floppy drives or one floppy drive and one
Micropolis 1200-series winchester. I've never heard of one without drives
at all -- in fact I don't think it could work.
[1] DEC CPU card, either 11/03 or 11/23 and Tektronix I/O and memory.
-tony
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