On 27 September 2016 at 17:21, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > How would you suggest they do that? They have one disk drive.
There is a ton of discussion in here about imaging old media. There are also disk execisers and the like. It's not big by modern standards, and it's fairly well-documented; read the contents into RAM on something more modern, write it back to the other disk? > This is the perennial problem with the Alto, it expects there is a network > so you can do things like network copydisk. I'm sure they'll get to that eventually, no? > They also need to lubricate the wick on the drive, which I told them to do but > it isn't clear if they bothered in their excitement. They also need to clean > the > pins on the Winchester connectors on the drive. I ran into this bringing up > one > of my drives on an exerciser yesterday. Ah. Could that be why disconnecting and reconnecting the cable seems to have helped, do you think? > Also, if they have a Lyon optical mouse, they need to come up with a pad, I > pointed > them to a paper Dick wrote that shows the hexagonal pattern in enough detail > to draw > a new one. Indeed. I have successfully laser-printed a SUN optical mouse pad before now, IIRC. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
