*early* Domain OS available?

[Bob Shannon]

I've got some older Apollo's, some still have 8-inch floppies.

3xxx machines could support 5 1/4 inch drives.

I ~may~ have Aegis on 8-inch disks.  I do have a running DN4500 with
most of the SAU's for early Apollo hardware.

This would let you boot diskless from my 4500, and then INVOL your
drive.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:35 AM
Subject: *early* Domain OS available?


>
> Quick check - does anyone have an earlier floppy-based release of Domain 
> OS for Apollo machines archived?
>
> We've been offered an Apollo, but no idea yet of which model - all the 
> details say is that it dates from when Apollo were independent (which 
> possibly still means it's something like a 3000, I suspect - weren't HP 
> not really involved until the 400 series?)
>
> Anyway, the machine has no OS, but it does have install floppies (that's 
> another thing; I thought Domain OS came on tape by the 3xxx machines - 
> floppies suggest it's much older).
>
> I'm willing to bet that the floppies aren't in the best of health by now 
> though, so figured I'd check if someone has floppy-based install media 
> archived anywhere before I chase this one up! (last thing we want is yet 
> another machine with no software to run on it :-)
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>
>