Old Unix system IDRIS

[Mark Davidson]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Douglas Taylor<dj.taylor4 at verizon.net> 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.
>
> As an aside, I didn't know any passwords to get me into the system.  My
> first try to log on as root using the password 'password' worked, I had to
> laugh.

Doug---

That's awesome!  I have always wanted to play with Idris but it's
almost impossible (as far as I know) to find systems that have it.

Mark