Hi Neil, Back in the early 90's, I had gotten involved with Microware OS-9 on a small 68008 STDBus system intended to be used as a controller on a process machine at work at a now-defunct employer. (Good Heavens, that's 30 YEARS ago!) Anyway, since I scrounged and still have the hardware and software sometime after the project got cancelled, I plan to mess with it again sometime into my retirement commencing in about a year or so. Tell me about that FlexUsersgroup you mention (you indicated they discuss OS9 and OSK :-) ) How/where can I join? It will help dust off my (rather Olde) brain in order to fire up one or more systems that I have. I bought my own license to OS-9 directly from Microware and bought other hardware back around then, too. Bought some Motorola MVME boards and rack, etc. I wasn't married then and had disposable income available. I've also got a DG Nova 1200 with paper tapes and a couple ASR33 Teletypes I plan to have fun getting running again :-), but I digress. Incidentally, I recently scored a stack of five or six ST225s from the electronic scrap bin at work -probably unearthed by somebody from the dusty, deep corners of a nearly 40-year-old 11 liter engine block machining line which we are in the process of demolishing to make way for new (up-to-date!!) diesel engine component machining lines. (I'm an engineer at one of the several Cummins engine plants in North America.) I may be easily talked into donating one for mechanical parts if Mr. Evanson arrives at that state if no other alternative. It will take time for me to unearth one of my old 8086-based machines which have MFM controllers, and software utilities, and try to *attempt* finding space in my shop to setup one that, itself, still functions, so not sure of the operating condx. of any of those units. So it would be, as they say, "as-is". I would like to somehow ensure the heads are parked, anyway. Let me know. Thanks for your feedback and time! -Chris F. On 12/29/2022 11:34 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Michael Evenson of the FlexUsergroup (FuFu) email list (Flex, OS9, OSK, UniFlex) has a drive with a failing bearing. Is there a repair group down in Atlanta are like we have at the museum in Wall?
Really like to help him keep going on his emulator.
If not does anyone have a ST225 drive they're not using?
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