Quothe Al Kossow, from writings of Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:50:56PM -0700:
> How much of your PERQ software is stored this way?
Alas, only a small percentage of it... most of it is stored on
multiple floppies and tapes. Not good for long-term storage, I'll be
the first to admit, but I've been unable to do otherwise thus far, but
now, with all of the inexpensive hard drives, it would be much less
expensive to do so than it would have been several years ago.
> So far, I've not been able to find anyone who has a copy of
> POS or any other PERQ operating system that I can get to try
> to revive my machine, even though there are several people
> who 'have it somewhere'
My PERQs have been somewhat inaccessible, but I'm finishing up some
rearranging that will allow me to get to them more easily, so if I can
get one of them working, I can at least try to clone you a working
POS and Accent distribution. Wow, you're in for some fun if you've
never installed POS on a hard drive before! You'll get to play
with all of the neat toys like scavenger, etc. and spend many, many,
hours getting POS installed (Accent is easier, but you'll need to
use POS to format the hard drive, etc.)
If I can get things working again, then I can help you; I'm just
hoping that my POS dist. tapes are still good, but if my hard drive is
ok, I can just copy that onto a tape (once I get the cable to the tape
drive repaired and ascertain that the tape drive, and the tape
controller board I built, still work) and create boot and run floppies
for you. Unfortunately, I pulled the wires loose to the connector to
my PERQ's tape drive while moving the PERQs. I'm looking forward to
hopefully being able to do all this, since you've made some good steps
forward towards archiving software from PERQ tapes (thanks!).
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