I am the friend with the broken 1186, i've narrowed down the problem to the MPB/CPU board, which never successfully loads the microcode. I have done a little bit of work with it but need to reinstall the OS on my logic analyzer to see if I can get further. :) The machine wasn't cheap so that was a huge bummer but it's otherwise complete.
I intend to take an image of the drive using David G's excellent MFM emulator, and would be more than happy to post it when I do. Sadly I recently moved and all my tools and related miscellaneous shit are in boxes so it will take me a little bit to get to. Don't want to get off topic, but some images I've already taken from other computers using this tool are uploaded here: http://x.quaalud.es/images/ Cheers, - Ian Sent from my iPhone On Oct 3, 2015, at 05:18, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: >> From: Josh Dersch > >> a currently non-working 1186 with an installation of the Lyric release >> of Interlisp-D installed on the drive >> ... >> I have made a disk image of the ad-hoc font disk I created > > Might be a good idea to make an image of the entire Lyric hard drive, in case > that drive fails, we won't lose the bits. > > Noel
