Old Unix system IDRIS
Pontus
pontus at update.uu.se
Sat Jul 4 04:26:28 CDT 2009
Douglas Taylor wrote:
> I tinker with old laboratory equipment and got a Bio-Rad 3200 computer
> the other day that runs a spectrometer.
>
> It is a 68030 based system that runs a version of Whitesmiths unix.
> It came with a bunch of floppys dated 1992.
>
> It runs just fine and I would like to get advice on how to preserve
> the contents of the small SCSI disk inside the computer and the floppys.
>
Tossing the drive into a modern machine with some unix on it would let
you do a image with dd. For the floppies it might be easiest to do
images on the drive in the IDRIS system, dd should be present in most
unices.
/P
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