11 Jul
2006
11 Jul
'06
10:04 a.m.
The floppy drive appeared to be a standard PC style 5
1/4" drive.
It would be a good thing to try Imagedisk on these to try to get the
software archived.
I've had pretty good luck with reading 5" floppies. 8" is another story...
11 Jul
11 Jul
11:47 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Hmm, good point - I had 'floppy-based' stuck in my head and completely missed
that the fax we've got says that they're 8". That suggests it's a pretty
early
Apollo and well before the 3000 or 4000 series.
At least if they're 8" disks then the recording density is pretty low and so
there's a good chance they're intact. OTOH, I've never tried hooking up an
8"
drive to a modern machine (i.e. PC) and tried Imagedisk (for example) with it.
cheers
Jules
The floppy
drive appeared to be a standard PC style 5 1/4" drive.
It would be a good thing to try Imagedisk on these to try to get the
software archived.
I've had pretty good luck with reading 5" floppies. 8" is another story...
12 Jul
12 Jul
9:16 p.m.
Early Apollo's with 8-inch drives can run Aegis SR9.7.2.
Again, I have a working DN4500 with the old SAU's for these
machines.
I also have a complete DN660 with spares, needs some work
reseating boards to get it to boot properly.
I'd like to unload all my Apollo hardware and documentation.
Anyone interested?
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From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: *early* Domain OS available?
Al Kossow wrote:
Hmm, good point - I had 'floppy-based' stuck in my head and completely
missed that the fax we've got says that they're 8". That suggests it's a
pretty early Apollo and well before the 3000 or 4000 series.
At least if they're 8" disks then the recording density is pretty low and
so there's a good chance they're intact. OTOH, I've never tried hooking up
an 8" drive to a modern machine (i.e. PC) and tried Imagedisk (for
example) with it.
cheers
Jules
The
floppy drive appeared to be a standard PC style 5 1/4" drive.
It would be a good thing to try Imagedisk on these to try to get the
software archived.
I've had pretty good luck with reading 5" floppies. 8" is another
story... 
9:28 p.m.
On Jul 12, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Bob Shannon wrote:
Early Apollo's with 8-inch drives can run Aegis
SR9.7.2.
Again, I have a working DN4500 with the old SAU's for these
machines.
I also have a complete DN660 with spares, needs some work
reseating boards to get it to boot properly.
I'd like to unload all my Apollo hardware and documentation.
Anyone interested?
Bob;
I'm still interested, but I don't know how much (if at all) your
situation regarding motor freight has changed since the last time we
spoke. If nothing else I would be extremely interested in whether you
still have Aegis on 8" floppies, as this would be singularly useful
for my DN330.
ok
bear
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