My First 'Nix box was a 16..... :)
At 12:27 PM 8/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Claude.W wrote:
>
> > I have fanilly gotten around to checking this model II/expansion box that
> > was saved from garbage truck.
> >
> > Very clean, no crt burn and a missing keyboard problem that was solved by
> > Hans Franke sending one he had all the way from Germany!
> >
> > Id like to show this thing off a bit more then just turning it on and
> seeing
> > ask for a disk....I dont think Ill be able to boot this from 5.25" 1.2M
> > drives connected to this...
> >
> > The unit came with a single 8" diskette that does not boot (written
> > "accounts receivable"). I dont know if its the floppy drive that is bad or
> > its not a bootable diskette or....internal 8" floppy drive looks "alive"
> > anyways...
> >
> > So I am asking if anyone as a easy way of making an 8" boot disk in this
> > situation or would be nice enough to provide me with one.
> >
> > Id like to get at least one. Better would be one of each OS this thing ran
> > and a few softs.
> >
> > I have a fairly large "for trade/giveaway" list of witch you could pick
> > something to thank you for the troubles...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Claude
> > http://www.members.tripod.com/computer_collector
>
>Well, I'm hurt. :-)
>
>You should have come to me first. I have a Model 16 (two actually, but
>one is jsut for parts.) I have TRSDOS, TRSDOS-II, TRSDOS-16 (which you
>can't run) and both the Z80 and 68K versions of UCSDPascal. Come to
>think of it, I also have Pickles & Trout CPM around here somewhere.
>Oh wait, I also have Xenix for the Model-16. What a collection.
>
>So, you want a couple of Model-16's with all the stuff that goes with them??
>One of these days the list will get big enough for you to make the trip
>down here to pick this stuff up. :-)
>
>bill
>
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Received on Wed Aug 15 2001 - 16:24:50 BST