Need help with Plexus P/35

[John R. Miller]

In article <1991Jan11.152909.15864 at zip.eecs.umich.edu> leasure at zip.eecs.umich.edu (Jerry Leasure) writes:
>In article <37838 at cup.portal.com> Azog-Thoth at cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) writes:
>>
>>Anyways, when I try to boot the thing, after futzing around with the
>>self-test, it tries to boot, and then reports to me that it cannot
>>wake the disk contoller, and passes into coma.
>>
>>I am wondering if anyone can give me a hand, getting this thing to work?
>>
>>Billy D'Augustine
>>billy at westmark.com
>
>   Hi Billy, I too am having problems with a Plexus P/35. I have a extra
>   controller board (in fact I have an extra everything). What I don't have
>   is a working Release tape set, my dconfig and dformat won't boot, I think
>   the old tape has just had it! I am also looking for a large SMD drive to
>   put in this (it has a bad Northern Telecom 8212x). If you're interested
>   in help or trading or getting together at all on this either mail me or
>   call me direct (313) 663-3275 H  or (313) 761-5000 ex. 198 W.
>
>			kite at kitenet.ann-arbor.mi.us
>			kite at m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us
>			...sharkey!m-net!kite


Include me in the ever growing list of people fiddling around with
P/35s.  I don't really have much to complain about compared to y'all.  I
don't have any spares, but my machine runs -- it's what I'm posting this
from (I sound like Madge: "Of course it's mild.  You're soaking in it.")
I've got several working release tapes, but you might not want them.  My
machine is so old it's running System III.  I can't even upgrade because
the firmware is too old to support System V.  Still, it works ok for a
news node, and thanks to a recent purchase of a second 1 meg board I've
even got emacs running (although I'm posting this from rn because I
haven't got outgoing mail/posting working from emacs yet).

I, too, would dearly love to get a larger drive for this puppy.  It's a
constant struggle to keep things from spilling out onto the carpet with
only one 70 meg drive.  Even a second small drive would be a big
improvement.

Surely we ought to be able to work something out.  Send me a note (or do
like me -- post if you don't trust your mailer) or phone if you're
interested in selling part of your system or even if you'd just like to
borrow a release tape (sys3 is better than nothing) -- either one of you
(or someone we haven't heard from yet).
-- 
John R. Miller   13102 Briar Hollow Dr.   Austin, Texas  78729
hm: 512/331-0155 john at crcaus.cactus.org  or ..cs.utexas.edu!bigtex!crcaus!john
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