I understand very well your concerns about sending by mail rare data on
magnetic media. It's a pity that I live so far away (in Belgium), even
if I have not finished to configure my machines, at the end I should be
able to write anything on any media, and concerning magnetic tapes it
will be from 500 to 6250 bpi.
If one day you find in your stock a communication board for Nova 1200
that you do not use please note that I am a potential buyer.
In the meantime, I have to find solutions to reopen all my old monsters
to the outside world ;-)
Dominique
On 16/01/2018 15:19, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
The 'other Jay' wrote...
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Diagnostics for DG systems are notoriously difficult to find. I have a few, in
listing format.
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I have a full official DG-issued/labeled original diagnostic OS tape. I do
believe it is at 800bpi though. If I had an 800 bpi drive (everything I have is
1600-6250) I'd image it for everyone.
I have a nice S/130 rack that I was almost finished restoring till Bruce Ray
stopped responding. It's been sitting in my workshop for years now and I may
have to just get rid of it. Next to it is a pile of about 8 nova 800/1200 cpus
(all stuffed with boards) that I was going to start on next, but was waiting
till the S/130 was done. I'd like to get done with them so I can move on to
other machines that need to be restored... but may have to just move them out
altogether.
I'm wary of just sending the tape through the mail for imaging.... maybe I can
find someone local with an 800 bpi tape drive and eric smith's tapeutils.
J
