Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System 325
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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?"
Re:audio (Score:5, Funny)
Alternatively, he could uuencode all the data, cat it to tty, take photos of the monitor and then OCR it.
Let's be realistic -- where's the fun in doing it like that?
Re:File systems were simpler back then (Score:2, Funny)
His crime was cat *.txt | grep "somePhrase" and wanted to know he could report which file and line number the matches were found on. First suggestion was get rid of the damn cat!
no way! the best way is... (Score:4, Funny)
these people are all wrong...just take it to Best Buy! the Geek Squad could save the data for you fo' sure!
Re:Not meant to be funny... (Score:3, Funny)
If you're not sure how to do this, I suggest renting and watching "Firewall" with Harrison Ford. You just need an iPod and a fax machine to tear into. There's a full tutorial in the movie. Works like a charm every time! Oh, and you'll need some tape.