"Ah, if only there *were* a "ProFile with UniPlus on it". "
Well, it just so happens the Lisa I recently obtained has UniPlus loaded on its Profile!
While I was still at the seller's place I used BLU to clone the 10mb Profile onto a 10mb profile partition on my IDEFile.
Now that the Lisa is repaired enough to function, I was able to try booting it up. It came up with no problems (other than the swap partition being too small for the 1.5mb of ram the system has now)
The bootloader it serialized. There is a paper note taped on the top of the Profile, which gives the command to boot the system from the bootloader prompt:
W(0,2501)UNIX
Here's a quick video I took of the system booting:
This system was used by a VT student... I found some of his homework on the hard drive, and a copy of his Freshman through Junior year report cards!
When I get home tonight I'll use BLU to pull a file image of the ProFile.
Is there anything that the group would like me to check on this system? The only documentation I got with the system is a ~6 page into booklet. I don't see it on bitsavers, so I'll scan it.
Thanks,
-J
On Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 12:55:34 PM UTC-5, -jeffB wrote:
On Feb 26, 1:16 am, Kallikak <ken.wes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see the UniPlus disks have been imaged. Any luck with the A/UX 1.1
> hard drive? An image of that would be fantastic.
I haven't touched it. I won't until I can get set up with an A/UX 3
install, or, failing that, something else that can pull a best-effort
image of the A/UX partition from the failing drive. (I'm hoping to
get the partition mounted as an A/UX filesystem, as I'd like to
recover the personal information from it with a somewhat higher
priority than the rest of the data.)
I'm interested in preserving the A/UX 1.1 distribution, but not to the
extent of paying for a full clean-room data recovery. :-/ Like
UniPlus on the Lisa, though, it may still exist as closetware --
sitting on the drives of Mac II's tucked away in the closets of 1991
Va. Tech CS graduates. Most will have been reformatted and/or tossed
by now, but some may still exist.