Thanks for the replies. My request has now changed somewhat.
The machine started getting intermitten hard errors two days ago,
and now no longer boots. The immediate symptom is a missing /bin/shell
(which is what Tek has chosen to call the shell).
I don't have a bootable floppy, so the situation doesn't look good.
So. Anybody has a suggestion? (The only one I can think of is
to put the drive on a machine with a SCSI interface, figure out
the filesystem format (close but not identical to the V7 fs), and
repair it.) Anybody want an almost-but-not-quite-working Tektronix 4404?
On Wednesday, 13 October 1993 at 04:21:44 UTC+1, Edward Wang wrote:
Thanks for the replies. My request has now changed somewhat.
The machine started getting intermitten hard errors two days ago,
and now no longer boots. The immediate symptom is a missing /bin/shell
(which is what Tek has chosen to call the shell).
I don't have a bootable floppy, so the situation doesn't look good.
So. Anybody has a suggestion? (The only one I can think of is
to put the drive on a machine with a SCSI interface, figure out
the filesystem format (close but not identical to the V7 fs), and
repair it.) Anybody want an almost-but-not-quite-working Tektronix 4404?
30 years later for a reply is ok, right? :-)
I have a working Tek4404 that I have restored and am writing new software for it.
Ping me if you have questions.
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