On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 7:20 AM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:55:19PM -0400, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
If anyone has the expertise to look at and repair the museum AT&T unix machine, it would be much appreciated. The symptoms seem to be that it is endlessly looking for a boot sector and not finding it (based on the symptoms and looking it up on a website). There is a green screen with characters slowly going across endlessly. Please contact Evan or myself if you have the ability and time.
Is this the 3B1/7300?
Yes. Have you tried booting the diag floppy? I will bring
one. Most likely the hard drive has died.
I do not know if we have that floppy.
The drive is normally a Miniscribe 6085 MFM full height 70M drive.
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