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- From: don@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Don Griffiths)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: Re: Help, sirius files?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.001416.3087@cujo.curtin.edu.au>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:14:16 GMT
- References: <6383@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- ajn@essex.ac.uk (Alastair Neil) writes:
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- >Does anyone remember the Sirius, did it run cpm? I have a collegue who has disks with
- >files written by an old sirius, and he would like to have access to them - but he doesn't
- >know what operating system the sirius ran. - Any help/suggestions very welcome.
-
- If you're refering to the Sirius/Victor 9000, it was an 8086 based, non-IBM PC
- compatible computer that ran both CP/M 86 and MS-DOS. If you don't actually
- have access to a Sirius, reading the disks can be a problem as they used
- variable speed drives (fitting 600k+ onto a SSDD 5.25 disk). Best solution,
- find someone with both a sirius and another PC and transfer the files by serial
- cable. (I have access to such a setup, but I'm a tad far away to be useful :-) )
-
- Don Griffiths
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