Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Kurt Nowak Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 19 Message-ID: <19327433.5528.1332193357924.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynne2> References: <24461015.1102.1331948792238.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcql4> <4f661637$0$6625$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <9706892.2648.1332100983335.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbvs10> <4f664fcd$0$6640$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <33243868.1926.1332177223863.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynbo9> <3775713.1973.1332187395122.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcju1> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.2.142.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1332193454 14574 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2012 21:44:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:44:14 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.2.142.12; posting-account=fhPgOgoAAAAh0HKrCej6k-q41rN0jMVe User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apollo:87 On Monday, March 19, 2012 1:08:26 PM UTC-7, supervinx wrote: > Il Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:03:15 -0700, Kurt Nowak ha scritto: >=20 > > Ha! Now you're asking too much! :-) >=20 > I asked because som IBM RS/6000 tolerate well booting from a DDS tape,=20 > instead of QIC-150... >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > http://www.supervinx.com/Retrocomputer Booting flexibily was not exactly Apollo's strength, like networking was...= I wish the engineers at Apollo had a bit more forsight to add more *new ins= tallation* booting options besides Tape and floppy. But then again, spendin= g hours hacking on this old equipment is totally our choice. Lothar and Jim= are pretty sharp, maybe they can hack the boot PROM to boot from CD and DD= S for us ;-)