On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:19:37PM -0700, Rich Bramante wrote:
> I just rescued one of these.
Nice.
> No docs/sw.
Not so nice.
> It has 2 RX50 drives, but no hard disk.
Hmm... a legitimate configuration, but not one I've ever seen.
> It powers up to a
> DECMate II screen with a flashing cursor in the ULH
> corner. Anything interesting I can do with this to
> play around without a hard drive?
Not much you can do with it without some kind of boot medium. There
_may_ be a terminal emulator in ROM, but I'm not positive of that; I
haven't run a diskless DECmate in a long time.
> Any floppy images I can snag
Almost certainly there are, but I can't recall off the top of my head
where you need to go.
> (will it boot from floppy?)
Absolutely. You might need an older machine to write out RX50 images
to a diskette, though. ISTR there are problems with trying to use
5.25" drives on newer PeeCee motherboards, but that might be more of
a problem with recent Microsoft operating systems, than problems with
recent motherboards/chipsets.
-ethan
--
Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 12-Aug-2004 23:20 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -68.2 F (-55.7 C) Windchill -106 F (-76.7 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 12.4 kts Grid 105 Barometer 680.1 mb (10623. ft)
Ethan.Dicks_at_amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html
Received on Thu Aug 12 2004 - 18:26:34 BST