"Barn" finds - Victor 9000, Rex Microcomputer and Intersil DevelopmentSystem

[Chris M]

--- JP Hindin <jplist2007 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:

> I didn't get any OS disks with the Victor, although
> I know it runs MSDOS
> I'm not sure how the disks are formatted. I tried
> with a random diskette
> labelled "MSDOS" and didn't get any joy - but the
> machine appeared to
> power up and gave me an adorable little graphic of a
> floppy disk that
> blinked, presumably indicating no OS diskette - a
> good sign it's in some
> kind of working shape :)
> 
> Does anyone out there have a Victor/Sirius with OS
> diskettes they might be
> able to clone for me?
> 
> Muchas gracias!

 NO. Absolutely not. I've had Vics and even a Vicky
for over ~1.5 years now, but haven't booted a one yet.
There are those that can help you on here (not me!).
We're working on swapping rom images at the moment
(unless I'm too far out of the loop). 
 Be advised the Vic formats a DD disk to about
1.2megs, so it is a highly proprietary format. And
even the DOS is customized for it's hardware. Good
luck pal!! Heh heh.


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