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Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System

Posted by timothy on from the warrior-princess dept.

Milo_Mindbender writes "I've recently gotten ahold of an old Altos 586 Xenix system (a late '80s Microsoft flavor of Unix) that has one of the first multi-user BBS systems in the US on it, and I want to salvage the historical BBS posts off it. I'm wondering if anyone remembers what format Xenix used on the 10MB (yes MB) IDE hard drive and if it can still be read on a modern Linux system. This system is quite old, has no removable media or ethernet and just barely works. The only other way to get data off is a slow serial port. I've got a controller that should work with the disk, but don't want to tear this old machine apart without some hope that it will work. Anyone know?"

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  1. Slashdot expertise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://goatse.fr/

  2. Re:Serial port. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, serious mistake, announcing your ties to SCO ... I mean they are going to sue the hell out of you, and if they don't it means you're working for them, so /.ers lynch him!

    btw, why don't you wait another decade or so and sell it for tons of cash?

  3. Re:File systems were simpler back then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Under 20 noobie here. What do you all mean by "cat"?

  4. Re:I'd do it the slow but secure way. by DerPflanz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so for G*ds sake

    Is God profanity nowadays, that we have to mask it from the filters?

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