[LMH]Re: [LMC] Explorer Tapes

[ford@objs.com]

Marc Holz wrote:

>Dear List Members,
>
>I quite new to this list and wonder who else might
>have a running Explorer. My machine is alive since yesterday and I'm very happy now.
>Since there aren't not that much Explorers left out there I hope that someone could help.
>I basically interested in a copy of the Explorer OS System, especially GDOS and the Lisp System.
>I think there wasn't never a product name like 'Genera' but to have that on tape or as image on cdr would be wonderful.
>I do have 3 distribution tapes but after 15 years the streching rubber inside were bad in all
>tapes and I stopped for now producing backups.
>
I've had success replacing the rubber band inside the cartridges with 
ones from new QIC-150 cartridges.

Steve

>I'm aware of Al Kossow's tape images but I wasn't able to bring them back to tape with
>my Archive Viper Streamer. I just dd them on my linux box to tape but I
>received errors, i.e.
>'i/o error'.
>Interesting would be as well a prom image of the nupi scsi controller. I
>found in comp.sys.ti.explorer
>that the prom level 16 supports normal scsi disks.
>
>Wish you all a nice sunday afternoon & evening.
>
>I'll appreciate any help very much.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Marc Holz
>
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Steve Ford
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