Re: Software for Rational R1000 series 400?

[erlo <erlo@none>]

On 06/01/2012 10:02 AM, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> The Danish Computing History Association (DDHF) has received a Rational
> R1000 series 400 from Terma.
>
> I was invited to assist in opening the crate and inspect the hardware
> and documentation yesterday.
>
> Apparently the disks in the machine have been erased before the machine
> left Terma, so DDHF is looking for a source for the operating system
> software for the R1000/400.  Since the disks in the machine seem to be
> plain SCSI disks, we hope that a raw disk copy will be enough to get it
> up and running again.
>
> Please contact me or Poul-Henning Kamp ("phk"&
> Ada.Characters.Latin_1.Commercial_At&  "phk.freebsd.dk"), if you have
> any information regarding software for the Rational R1000 series 400.
>
> There will (soon) be photos of the machine on<http://datamuseum.dk/>.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jacob

The disks are SCSI, as you guessed. The R1000 will nly work with a few 
disk types, one of the types is Fujitsu. This is due to some hard coded 
disk geometry things in the machines disk controller, as far as I remember.
You will need a tape with DFS, which is diagnostics and microcode. The 
you will need the environment itself. These things might be hard to get, 
even Rational didn't have the installation tapes back in 2003....

Try IBM, they bought Rational at some point and have been able to locate 
machines and spares.

/Erlo