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Altos 580-10 and Series 5

Sharkonwheels

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owing to the graciousness (and patience :) ) of Erik Klein, I have scanned and uploaded the Altos manual titled "MP/M II Operating System Manual for Altos 580-10 and Series 5" to bitsavers.org.

It can be found in the Altos directory here

Now I just need to see if a place like Kinko's (or whatever the heck their name is now!) can scan 11x14, and drop it onto a USB key, or a cd-r, or whatever. I have no way to scan-and-save 11x14.

T
 
Maybe we can work something out with Erik, where I can send it to you, and you can send it to him.

Although, i don't know how much risk he wants taken with his docs! That's alot of travel!
Might be safer for me to find an office services place that covers 11x14


T
 
I have scanned and uploaded the Altos manual titled "MP/M II Operating System Manual for Altos 580-10 and Series 5" to bitsavers.org.

T


Thank you Sharkonwheels - I recently asked Eric for the the same thing, for myself and another member who were having problems with our 5/15's and neither of us could find a manual. The other guy PM'd me yesterday about the manual being at Bitsavers, and my 5/15 is now working like it should do.
(You need a manual with an Altos - the 5/15 has the A drive on the right and the B on the left, and to top it off, the 8000 series has you insert the 8" disk with the manufacturer's label down and the floppy disk seams up - they must have been real messed up on drugs at the time).

So what do you need the 11" x 14" scans for - something Altos related?
 
The schematics in the Altos manual are fold-out 11x14.
I'd like to get full-size scans, instead of what I put in there.
All I had, was to put it on a copier, reduce to legal (8x14) and scan that.

11x14 scans would look much better, clearer, and more detail.

Oh - something I discovered a while back....
on the ADX diagnostics disk, any option requiring wiping/formatting the hard disk, might tell you
to call a number to get the password. Obviously, that number won't work. When doing it on a
Series 5 or 580, the password is ALTOS spelled backwards, and I think all capitals, so SOTLA.

T
 
I'd like to find a user's manual for an Altos 8200-1.

I've got my 5/15 working fine, and have been trying to use the 8000 Series manual to figure out what's going on with my 8200.

I can't find anything on the 8200.
I'm starting to think as my serial number is something like # 2472, that maybe they changed the model numbers later on. Mine is a multi-user machine (total 4 users, 2 - 8" floppy drives (no hard drive). I know that the 8000 Series manual mentions that an 8200 chassis is a multi-user machine, but there's no 8200-1 listed (and that's what's stamped on the back of mine).

I turn it on, the fans blow air, both floppies spin like mad, but there's no monitor/terminal test, and request to boot from the floppy. I'm using the same settings on the terminal for the 8200 as I do for the 5/15 as both those manuals use the same settings - but something's different on the 8200.

Does anyone have, or has anyone seen an 8200?
 
No, actually they had 8000, 8100, and 8200 series machines, if not more!
Each were different, down to single and multi user, and FDD only or FDD+HD.
If you look in the 8000 series manual online at Bitsavers, I think it covers a LITTLE bit, the 8100- and 8200-series machines, mostly in the component layouts, and schematics.

T
 
That's what I've been using (the 8000 manual at bitsavers), but there's got to be some other stuff that's missing about the 8200. I've followed the directions, and can't get the 8200 to work. I think it's the terminal settings. It works with the 5/15 but not the 8200.
 
Terminal settings should be similar. If you plug it all on, and start the emulators, do you get *ANYTHING* on the emu screen? I know my 8000 just put up a * or a $ or something - it wasn't much! The Series 5 / 580 posts up a message, whereas the 8000 series, at least mine, do not.


T
 
Alot of us didn't.
I'm still sitting on Erik's manuals (well, not LITERALLY :) ) trying to get someone at the office to help me scan the schematics. They're fold-out 11x14, and we have these fancy-schmancy copiers that can scan into a mailbox onboard the copier...

Now get this....

N O O N E knows how to get the scans, um O U T of these mailboxes :confused:

<sigh>

I dunno - sometimes I feel like grabbin' 20ft of cat6 and hangin' myself :)
But with my luck, the cable would break, and I'd blow out a knee in the fall :rofl:


T
 
Argh! My bad!

OH! Speaking of that...


I was at the University of Miami surplus depot yesterday, and I saw a transceiver, looks like from RG59 to AUI, except this thing was like a brick!
Coulda' sworn it said 3M on it - I was tempted to buy it (if cheap) just as a dang conversation piece!

it was freaking HUUUUGE!


T
 
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