OT: Need Unix tech in Springfield, Missouri area
Jay West
jwest at classiccmp.org
Wed Aug 2 08:27:56 CDT 2006
Kelly wrote....
> I shut off my last SCO Unix box in February.
Your experience with it is more recent than mine then!
> My recollection is that QIC-80 required the FC10, and it was not built
> into the kernel. You had to at least recompile, and it may have required a
> special disk from the manufacturer of the FC10 (colorado?). QIC-02 support
> was easier if you have any of the drive/controller combos around.
I do have the FC10. I am pretty sure I have the SCO drivers v2.59 for the
Jumbo250 (originally Colorado Memory Systems or CMS, later acquired by HP).
I actually do have a QIC02 drive somewhere, probably have a controller
lurking about, but those are of suspect functionality.
> If they still have a floppy drive, and you tell me the version of the unix
> (send uname -A), I'll see if I have the TCP/IP install set. If so, I can
> image it and send it along. It supported a limited number of cards, but
> the 3c509 was one of them and they are still abundent on the surplus
> market.
Didn't installing TCP/IP require one of the infamous 'pink cards' which
would also require a phone-in activation?
Jay
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