RD, hen e got ours, the oners fired her up for us. Then
disassembled it for moving. There as, I think a problem on the tape
drive. It has been reassembled, and it only lacks the master key to be
turned on. The OS is Ultimate.
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, R. D. Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > > Sellam, what OS are you running on your DPS-6? About a decade ago
> >
> > Currently, none. The system is basically non-operational.
>
> Hmmm.... have to do something about that! The sounds that system
> makes when running are too much fun to have it sit quietly. :-)
> Anyway, it's good to know that one of these is being preserved.
> Aside from no O.S., do you know if the hardware is ok, or
> possibly ok? The system that I worked with had some sort of floppy
> disk holder inside the front chasis panel with a diagnostics
> floppy located there. Did you get one of these?
>
> > I have the setup you describe:
> >
> > http://www.siconic.com/computers/dps6tall.jpg
>
> That looks like a much nicer system than the one I worked with; it
> also appears newer. Looking at the tape drive on yours, it doesn't
> appear to use a vacuum column for the tape tension. When the CPU
> cabinet's front door was opened, instead of what all I see in yours
> (what all's there?), there was just metal screening that allowed one o
> see the lights on the boards in the card-cage.
>
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- Ovid
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