On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:52 +0000, Mark Rogers wrote: > On 10/02/10 15:35, Andy Taylor wrote: > > Very useful for me and the museum I'm a volunteer for! :-) > > If any of you want to donate anything to the museum, please let me know. > > I can collect from you (as long as you don't live too far away!) > > > > Depends how old you want! I have a couple of Amstrad 1640's and a BBC > micro sat in the workshot right now! Also a 386 based "laptop" (assuming > you have a big lap :-) All were working last time anyone checked but > they may be a bit past it now! > > (Aside: Any suggestions for wiping the hard disks on the 1640's > welcomed. They pre-date IDE, and the PCs have 5.25" drives and obviously > no network, usb, etc!) >
Those are the kind of machines we like for the museum. I can take them to the museum for you. Doesn't matter if they don't work - we can probably fix it. As for formatting the MFM disks on the 1640, you would either use a DOS boot disk and fdisk/format the drive. Or, you may be able to use the old DOS 'debug' command to run some code from the disk controllers BIOS. Some controllers let you run a low level format from there. I can make a 5 1/4 DOS boot disk if you need one. Andy. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
