• Re: Tektronix 4404

    From Adam Billyard@21:1/5 to Edward Wang on Sun Aug 6 04:54:23 2023
    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.

    Adam

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  • From Dave McGuire@21:1/5 to Adam Billyard on Sun Aug 6 18:19:52 2023
    On 8/6/23 07:54, Adam Billyard wrote:
    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.

    We have a 4404 at LSSM. We've not yet looked into it, but we do hope
    to get it running at some point.

    -Dave

    --
    Dave McGuire, President/Curator
    Large Scale Systems Museum
    New Kensington, PA

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