On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Ken Seefried wrote:
> From: "Eric J. Korpela" <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
> I need to stop the nostalgia now or I'll break into a rousing rendition of
> "Where have all the RTs gone?"
...well, I can tell you where one of them is: here. :-) Alas, it's
boot drive failed, and I've got to find time to replace it; I think
I've got a 330MB ESDI Micropolis drive that will with it; it's really
picky about which drives ones will, and won't, work, IIRC. It's AIX
appears to be a rather strange animal as well, but I didn't get a
chance to play with it enough to find out just how strange. :-( If
course, while it may be strange in comparison to other UNICEs, I doubt
that it's as annoying as anything from SCO (is the rumor true that SCO
actually stands for "Screwey Clunker of an OS" and that it began as
part of a Microsoft plot to make people dislike UNIX?).
Those original IBM drives made fascinating sounds when the locking
mechanisms unlocked, one at a time, prior to spin-up... plink, plink,
plink... sort of musical. I've got to get a 5-1/4" hard drive
re-attached to one of my working UNIX boxes so that I can dump the AIX
boot floppy, etc. images to floppies.
Do I recall correctly that the PC-RT's tape drive is a "floppy tape"
sort of critter? It so, I'm wondering if I can just attach that tape
drive to a UNIX box that supports it (if that's possible) and create
some sort of bootable tape from the image files. Has anyone here
done this? If not, has anyone here created a bootable tape from a
working RT running AIX?
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