> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 9:22 AM > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Xerox Alto on eBay > > > > On 4/13/16 7:52 PM, jwsmobile wrote: > > > Side discussion on Facebook says that media is rare too. None with > > the system (I think) from the discussion there. > > > > I have tons of it. They are 12 sector 2315 packs. > You have to duplicate it on a two drive Alto, since the format is unique. I've > heard LCM has written some code to load it from the Alto pack images that I > created.
Yes, we're able to duplicate packs and write new ones out from disk images. (At the moment it's kind of cumbersome -- involving a PDP-11/44 with a 3mbit Ethernet board, a seriously hacked 2.11BSD kernel and a bit of luck -- but we're working on a more elegant solution.) If anyone out there ends up with a working Alto and needs working media, we can help out in that regard (assuming you provide usable packs). - Josh Sr. Vintage Software Engineer Living Computer Museum www.livingcomputermuseum.org
