I'm sure glad to see the list is back up, I originally tried the following
message on Tuesday. I still don't know anything more about the system.
Unfortunatly it's been raining really hard around here since Tuesday, so
the system is still sitting at work, and I've not really been able to
examine it.
Zane
I'm still a little shocked. I just found a working iPDS system, complete
with documentation and some software. Unfortunatly I don't think a lot of
it is still readable. I did get the system to boot and pass all
diagnostics.
I know nothing about these beasties, from looking at the doc's it's
obviously i8085 based with 64k RAM. It's got a single 5 1/4" floppy, and
it's in a case slightly smaller than a Kaypro II. In the area behind the
CRT is a storage area for two pods that each handle two different sizes of
PROMs, these plug into a hole in the right side of the case.
What on earth filesystem are the floppies? Are any kind of software images
available to replace the dead floppies? Is there any software to read and
write to the floppies from MS-DOS?
Basically the main thing I'm interested in is the systems ability to read
and write PROMs. I wouldn't mind being able to use this to support my DEC
hardware :^)
Zane
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Received on Sat Dec 08 2001 - 21:15:06 GMT