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Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System
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?"
Even if it would take weeks.
exactly, 10mb at 9600bps will take only 2-3 hours.
No way it would take weeks. Even if the serial port was only 300 bit per second ... 10*1024*1024*8/300/3600=77.6 hours ... at 14400bps this would take 1.6 hours
Dear Slashtards,
When he said Even if it would take weeks he meant it as a figure of speech, used to encourage the poster to take his time and get it right (you know, kind of like sex). It was not an actual estimation of time.
Your Pal,
Get A. Clue
As an example: I had to do some requests-for-deletion when Google got their hands on many decades old Usenet archives. Now that every bugger has teh interweb tubes, there are people I don't fancy seeing that stuff from my yoof - when it was posted I didn't intend it to be pushed off into the future to be published to entire bloody world, forever. Had enough bloody trouble with a stalker from back then as it was, I do not fancy them joining the dots and working out where I am now. I don't fancy you guys digging either... hence posting Anon! ;)
Get over yourself. Nobody gives a fuck about you and your closeted homosexual faggotry from 25 years ago.