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Originally Posted by oggy_bogy
We tried to read them under Ubuntu 6.10
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I hope you mounted the disks readonly.
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Originally Posted by oggy_bogy
Any suggestions?!?!?!
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Maybe you don't realise this yourself if you work with that kind of equipment but it's not old and it's not ancient, it's prehistoric. If you've done a wee bit of research yourself you've found only a few snippets of information on the 'net so if you still got the IDRIS install disks, manuals, whatever else related from that past millennium you should find that posting more information than a link to Wikipedia is, well, simply mandatory in your case if you expect anything except STFW. Also since this is an unsupported O.S. I think you should make "dd" copies of the disk(s) before doing anything else.
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Originally Posted by oggy_bogy
IDRIS OS
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The page leads to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermetrics so if any IDRIS-related IP was transferred during M&A you should be able to trace where it ended up. The page also contains some leads like Coldris (can't find refs) and MacIdris (gets slagged off
here and
here, no real technical details) and about the filesystem I only find
this and
this. So maybe if you can find an ancient Mac and MacIDRIS it will allow you to read those disks. Fat chance ;-p
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Originally Posted by oggy_bogy
a Perkin-Elmer 7700 Professional Computer.
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Now this is a beauty. Picture
here and specs
here (french). This sleek design package that would look spiffy in everyones livingroom sports a RS-232c connector so maybe try
Kermit to transfer data (or maybe try the
IEEE-488 / HPIB bus) or else print it. If that doesn't work (since you didn't post any information on what data you should get from the disk I'll just try to be a wee bit more creative) set up a digital camera with timer, cat stuff to the screen and OCR the resulting data.
Good luck.