Altos 586 system sold on eBay

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:26:30 +0100
Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:

> > I have an Altos 586 and would REALLY like to have diskettes to
> > reinstall the OS 'stock' (mine has a limited version of Xenix with
> > an 'office suite' on it as well).  Does anybody know this buyer?
> > 
> 
> I'd like a copy of the install media for my Altos 386, or any other 
> information about it...
> 
> Gordon.

Is your Altos a 386-processor system?  Those are much newer than the 586
which is a five-user 8086 system.

Good news- 

I've heard back from the person who won the bidding on eBay.  He didn't
get a working boot diskette, but he did get (this is what has me excited
about this) the Development Tool diskettes.  With what Pat has said he
probably has and these other disks, we may be able to pull together a
good robust system setup for the Altos 586.  I pointed him at Dave
Dunfield's site where there's a boot diskette image, and recommended he
contact Dave through the site about getting his disks imaged and
available.  He also got a lot of paper documentation.

It will be really great if the OS and a C compiler comes together out of
this.  Then we can start porting over the classic UNIX sources and make
these Altos boxes come alive again in a real way (a vintage UUCP
network??).

Scott

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