On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:12:10PM -0400, Chris Zach wrote:
> Working on it. Question: Was the 67mb drive in a 7300/3B1 a miniscribe 6085?
>
Yes it was. http://www.pdp8online.com/3b1/drive.shtml
Hm. Then I have a dillema. When I popped in the Miniscribe and tried
booting it started reading the disk then popped out a boot error.
Possibly a bad sector, but how can I read this disk to find the rest of
the data?
Hm Anyone got one of those Beaglebone/RPI to MFM readers I could
borrow
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:58:01AM -0700, Ian Finder wrote:
> I may be able to track down floppies for 7300 TCP, if we can confirm it is
> extinct in the wild...
>
It may exist but is wounded.
https://archives.loomcom.com/retrocomputing/UnixPC/Install/standardized/ethernet/
All the 10S disks
Working on it. Question: Was the 67mb drive in a 7300/3B1 a miniscribe 6085?
C
On 7/20/2020 2:58 PM, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote:
I may be able to track down floppies for 7300 TCP, if we can confirm it is
extinct in the wild...
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 1:31 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
On
That could be helpful. There seems to be a need for it (at least one),
and it's going to take awhile to sift thorough everything to find all
the disks.
Also I'm wondering if this system had a 70mb disk originally and was
replaced with a 40mb disk from another 7300. That could explain why the
I may be able to track down floppies for 7300 TCP, if we can confirm it is
extinct in the wild...
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 1:31 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
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> On 7/19/20 12:42 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Now I have a big crate with "Convergent technologies" sitting in my
> truck,
And one big binder (8.5*11) called Reference Manual which seems to have
all the theory of operation and whatnot.
C
On 7/20/2020 10:31 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Let's see. Key floppies I have right now include:
System Software V 3.51 EIA RAM Combo board expansion disk
Tape backup
Let's see. Key floppies I have right now include:
System Software V 3.51 EIA RAM Combo board expansion disk
Tape backup Diagnostics
Tape backup system drivers
Tape backup 1.0
Telephone manager disk
Communications patch
Async Terminal Emulation disk
In the back of the owner's manual there are
It did not seem to work and ping from the command line was not found. So
it might not be on there.
That said I picked up a bunch of manuals and one of them was on TCP for
the 7300 (red ATT manual). Maybe some floppy disks in there. I'll also
keep an eye out for loose 5.25 floppies if this is
On 7/19/20 12:42 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Now I have a big crate with "Convergent technologies" sitting in my truck, I'll have to figure that one out next. Also more Perq manuals and
floppy disks.
Probably a miniframe or mightyframe, considering the 7300 is a Convergent
machine under
Thanks David, and everyone else for helping me with getting these files
off. Starting on Friday I hooked up a serial cable and null modem to my
laptop PC, got getty running, and logged into this 7300 as install.
Escalated to root and went over to his directory. The big problem is the
system
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:12:34PM -0400, Chris Zach wrote:
> Anyone know the best way to get files off an AT 7300/3B1 computer? This
> one has a lot of Perq stuff in a directory as well as hilarious things you
> can do with RP06 disk platters (ah, when we were young...)
>
You may have finished
> One oddity: The system came up but was faulting out on ports tty1 and 2.
>
Editing /etc/inittab fixed that, but the system *does* have a two serial
> port card expansion module. Wonder if the modules have to be in specific
> slots or something...
>
The UnixPC uses geographic addressing (like an
You might be able to use a terminal to pull/push files via the serial
port. Log in using the "install" user (password = blank/none) and work
your way to the Hardware setup window. From there find the RS232 section
and if necessary change NONE to TERMINAL. With a null modem adapter plug a
serial
This gets my vote too.
Pat
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 3:00 AM Ian Finder via cctalk
wrote:
> David Gesswein's excellent MFM emulator will capture a full-fidelity image
> of the disk- both flux and bits- if you want the ultimate possible archival
> integrity:
> https://www.pdp8.net/mfm/mfm.shtml
>
David Gesswein's excellent MFM emulator will capture a full-fidelity image
of the disk- both flux and bits- if you want the ultimate possible archival
integrity:
https://www.pdp8.net/mfm/mfm.shtml
Every vintage computing household needs at least one.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:39 PM Grant Taylor
On 7/13/20 9:12 PM, Phil Budne via cctalk wrote:
UUCP?
I'm glad that someone else said UUCP. I was thinking UUCP.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
Now that I think about it, I could probably make a tarball, use uuencode
to turn it 7 bit, then cat it, then use uudecode on a mac to turn it
back into a tarball.
Always a way to do something. Time to raid the pdp11 for some null modem
gear...
On 7/13/2020 11:21 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On
That's A surprisingly good idea. I used a 7300 with uucico back in
the 80's to route mail along with my Pro/350 running Venix to Yafc and
the internet. I wonder if I can still do it.
One oddity: The system came up but was faulting out on ports tty1 and 2.
Editing /etc/inittab fixed that,
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:12 PM Phil Budne via cctalk
wrote:
> UUCP?
Definitely a good method, especially if you don't have Kermit already.
-ethan
UUCP?
On 7/13/20 6:12 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Anyone know the best way to get files off an AT 7300/3B1 computer?
This one has a lot of Perq stuff in a directory as well as hilarious
things you can do with RP06 disk platters (ah, when we were young...)
It does have an AUI Ethernet port on
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