At 03:45 PM 11/30/02 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi guys!,
>
>Go easy on me, I'm new here and don't know the ropes yet :S
>
>I have an old Intel RMX Sys86/330 system (white cabinet)which I'd got
>working a few years back, but has fallen over again.
Holy Shit! I just scrapped four of those things. I bought them (minus hard drives :-( but could never find any info, docs or software for them so I finally gave up and stripped them and saved the cards for my other Multibus systems.
>
>All I'm really interested in is getting the data (mostly ASM source)on the
>hard drive onto a PC. I also have boxes full (heaps!) of 8" floppies for
>this system that I'd like to get the data off and over to a PC.
>
>I've searched classiccmp archives and google and can't find quite what I'm
>after, though I did find ppl trying to run 3.5" and 5.25" fdd's on 8"
>systems.
>
>What I'd like to be able to do is connect my 8" HDD to a PC and D/L all the
>data directly - likewise with the 8" FDD. Am I wasting my time, or is this
>possible? Making interfaces / electronics is no problem, and I have all the
>gear like CRO, logic probe, etc.
What kind of format are the disks? Intel used a odd double density format on their MDS machines and NOTHING else will read them. I and several others on this list have working MDSs that should be able to read the disks if they in the MDS single or double density format but the 86/330 is a lot newer and may use a more modern format.
>
>Hard drive is -
>Priam Model 3450-10
>8" HDD
>
>Floppy disk drive is -
>Mitsubishi Model M2894-63D June 83
>8" FDD
The ones that I stripped all used Shugart drives. IIRC they were 801s.
Joe
>I believe this is DSDD based on some of the disks I have.
>
>
>Any help would be appreciated
>
>Regards
>
>Grant Mc :o)
>
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Received on Sat Nov 30 2002 - 18:58:54 GMT