I acquired a 5160 that was in storage, un-touch since about 1988 in a box.
Before turning it on, I pulled all the cards and drives and blew some dust out of it. Once I was sure the PS was good and no tantalum exploded, I put it back together.
The 20mb Type 2 hard drives sounds like in initializes, knocks around a bit. The head motor does turn and do some basic seeking.
After testing memory, the floppy drive is address and tries to boot, then the hard drive light comes on and flickers. Then BASIC comes up.
Where do people working on these old computers come up with bootable DOS floppies (360K btw)? Unfortunately, I do not have anyone near central, PA that are in to trying to restore these old things and it has been so long for me. I was still using the TRS80 Model 4 when this came out and to about 1990. Then I got in to PCs.
What version of DOS should I look for this machine? I would assume DOS 6.x would not work. Did I read somewhere that this needs DOS 2.0?
I guess I can start looking on EBAY for DOS and hope the floppies boot, than I will able to test this hard drive (Seagate ST225, I think).
I could just use a little assistance getting started. I also need to build up another system, maybe a K6, with multiple drives so I can make disks for these older ones, but I haven't started that yet.
Thanks kindly,
Dave
Before turning it on, I pulled all the cards and drives and blew some dust out of it. Once I was sure the PS was good and no tantalum exploded, I put it back together.
The 20mb Type 2 hard drives sounds like in initializes, knocks around a bit. The head motor does turn and do some basic seeking.
After testing memory, the floppy drive is address and tries to boot, then the hard drive light comes on and flickers. Then BASIC comes up.
Where do people working on these old computers come up with bootable DOS floppies (360K btw)? Unfortunately, I do not have anyone near central, PA that are in to trying to restore these old things and it has been so long for me. I was still using the TRS80 Model 4 when this came out and to about 1990. Then I got in to PCs.
What version of DOS should I look for this machine? I would assume DOS 6.x would not work. Did I read somewhere that this needs DOS 2.0?
I guess I can start looking on EBAY for DOS and hope the floppies boot, than I will able to test this hard drive (Seagate ST225, I think).
I could just use a little assistance getting started. I also need to build up another system, maybe a K6, with multiple drives so I can make disks for these older ones, but I haven't started that yet.
Thanks kindly,
Dave