Date   : Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:14:16 GMT
From   : munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!don@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Don Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Help, sirius files?

ajn@essex.ac.uk (Alastair Neil) writes:


>Does anyone remember  the Sirius, did it run cpm? I have a collegue who
has disks with
>files written by an old sirius, and he would like to have access to them
- but he doesn't
>know what operating system the sirius ran. - Any help/suggestions very
welcome.

If you're refering to the Sirius/Victor 9000, it was an 8086 based, non-IBM PC
compatible computer that ran both CP/M 86 and MS-DOS.  If you don't actually
have access to a Sirius, reading the disks can be a problem as they used
variable speed drives (fitting 600k+ onto a  SSDD 5.25 disk).  Best solution,
find someone with both a sirius and another PC and transfer the files by serial
cable. (I have access to such a setup, but I'm a tad far away to be useful
:-) )

Don Griffiths
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