16 Oct
2019
16 Oct
'19
2:20 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:55, Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo(a)alchemistowl.org wrote:
I can remember having to reinstall Xenix on a Wang PC-002. The floppy disks
had been kept in a folder next to a radiator, and I had to clean the floppy
drive with compressed air before we could start. Surprisingly the reinstall
went smoothly, but very slowly! The real issue was getting the serial
terminal board working again!
Matt
On 15 Oct 2019, at 06:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
which
somehow were almost readable but not quite… then you started the
install again and a different floppy failed.
Clearly you weren't installing Interactive
UNIX/386 from floppy, like
my first experience. It was like pulling teeth.
Not to mention Xenix/286… the never ending 5”1/4 “HD” floppies… the ones