Data General DS7540 workstation---need information please!

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From: Thomas M. Hundt
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1989 20:30

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My friend Steve just got one of these, it's a fully-loaded DS7540
workstation with color monitor and 150MB (?) disk.  Also floppy drive
and cartridge tape drive.

He is not able to do anything with the floppy drive---although he has a
stack of disks they don't load, system complains "disk recalibration
error" and the head won't move.  We suspect bad floppy drive.

He is able to boot Unix off of a tape, this seems to install a
"mini-root" environment on the hard drive.  What to do next?  is the
question. 

He'd like to hear from anyone who has a system like this, in part to ask
questions like "Is this machine any good?".

OK to reply to me; I'll forward responses.

Thanks,

-Tom Hundt

hundt@occlusal.rutgers.edu:Thomas M. Hundt:201/247-6723(H),932-5843(Lab)

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From: hundt@paul.rutgers.edu (Thomas M. Hundt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Data General DS7540 workstation---need information please!
Keywords: clueless friend just got one, having trouble w/unix.
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Date: 4 Aug 89 20:30:31 GMT
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