Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Fri Jun 14 12:19:11 CDT 2019



On 6/14/19 10:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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> On 6/14/19 10:14 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>> On 6/14/19 9:57 AM, Alan Perry wrote:
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>>> I have been talking to other folks at CHM about seeing the one there, but need to work on my rationale.
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>> There really isn't much to see that is in the picture. It's not like the system in in one physical location
>> in storage. Everything is palletized and would have to be brought down from the pallet racking.
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>> I have no way to read the packs. I may still have a drive in my storage, if it hasn't already been scrapped
>> as I've been downsizing over the past several years.
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> I also still have some 19xx series boards since I had wanted to pull the proms to at least attempt to save
> enough information so someone could try simulating the machine in the future. On the list of things to do
> is try to save some 1700 2315-style 32 sector packs that I should be able to read if I can ever get back
> to working on digitizing non 12 sector packs.
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and read several dozen cold-start and diag cassettes



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