[OT] Looking for ancient boot media

[Bill Sconce]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:17:25 -0400
Warren Luebkeman <warren at resara.com> wrote:

> This reminds me of a discussion I had with Maddog and Bill Sconce earlier this 
> week, regarding the possibility of a show-and-tell of some of these ancient 
> computers.  I'm sure others would be very curious to see some of these things 
> in working condition, I know I would.  Especially a paper tape reader or 
> something along those lines.  

It would be fun.  I was cleaning out the other day and came across a film
can (you remember: film, the stuff we used to put in cameras).  Inside I
found...   a few hundred memory cores.

Of course, maddog says he has core PLANES (cores wired up to make bytes
and ... whole WORDS!).

-Bill

P.S.  I do have some 5.25" drives, BTW.  And a BUNCH of the disks.
(Also, a Tandy 1400, which had a DOS boot disk which worked the last
time it was tried, in 1997 or so.)  Sounds like a weekend-long project,
though.  Just the disks, just ask.


 
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 8:19 am, klussier at comcast.net wrote:
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>
> >
> > > Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> writes:
> > > > A quick Google found Linux tools to do the formatting and presumably
> > > > copying, so a working TRS-80 is not needed, just a 5.25" floppy drive
> > > > (and Linux, the wonder tool, to bring it On Topic).
> > >
> > > Oh interesting!  Hmmm, I'm sure I can dig up the proper hardware.  The
> > > larger problem is 5.25" disks :)  I must have some around here
> > > somewhere...
> >
> > If I remember correctly, you can use a casette tape to boot the TRS-80.
> > Now, if you can just find a way to make the TRS-80 emulators for Linux
> > output to a casette tape, you're all set :-)
> >
> > C-Ya,
> > Kenny
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