On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
> Bleh. MDR's mailserver is down, and I can't get in to fix it till
> Monday.
> Well, the Altos 580 ended up costing me $5 and "a future favor".
> Tyler couldn't find any of the floppy disks for it.
> It looks fine inside, except that the case fan was unplugged from the
> PSU. After finding the power header & plugging it in, I understand
> that.
> It does speak VT100, on RS232 port "JC" (Thanks, Andreas!) and boots to
> "Boot Monitor v7.03". Passes system tests, and attempts to boot from
> the hard drive. The activity light on the floppy drive comes on and
> stays on.
> I don't think the hard drive, a CMI CM-5619, is powering up at all.
> If it is it's incredibly quiet....
> Anyway, I don't have any way to test the system. I did find an
> archive of MP/M II for it, but the zip file isn't in any image format.
>
> Does anyone have the install disks, and the Diagnostics/utilities
> disk, or disk images? And a way to create the disks on a Linux box?
> They are DD/DS floppies, right?
Better check the drive(s). I think they may be DSQD.
- don
> Does this thing care what MFM disk it has?
>
> More junkyard fun....
>
> Doc
>
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Received on Sat Mar 16 2002 - 23:16:42 GMT