I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO

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Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: barcher174 on June 15, 2015, 11:19:37 PM
The is the first time I've booted this disk or any version of 0.8 from MO.

Video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBHnEG8sBKk

It takes a long time, so feel free to fast forward. 0.9 was a definite improvement in boot time.

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Brian
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: eagle on June 16, 2015, 05:53:05 AM
I love the sound of the OD.  I used to run my Cube exclusively off the OD.
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: pentium on June 16, 2015, 01:35:11 PM
Unless I stand corrected, you are now the first person on the internet, period, to upload a video of a cube MO booting.
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: barcher174 on June 16, 2015, 04:03:23 PM
Quote from: "pentium"Unless I stand corrected, you are now the first person on the internet, period, to upload a video of a cube MO booting.

It was really satisfying to finally see everything work together. The cube in question has all parts of the appropriate vintage to have been shipped with 0.8. Including the MO drive (Dec. 1988).

Are you still fighting with the digital board on yours? Is everything else working?

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Brian
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: pentium on June 17, 2015, 11:43:58 AM
I'm SOL. Khashoggi who was better at electrical engineering then me has apparently gone full AWOL along with his test rig and everyone else apparently stopped caring once they got theirs fixed with a recap/bought a working recapped drive. <:/
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: barcher174 on June 17, 2015, 12:14:23 PM
I have extra working digital boards...
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: pentium on June 17, 2015, 05:15:10 PM
Well, I guess if you want to give me that kind of slack.....
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: gtnicol on June 19, 2015, 11:30:28 PM
Quote from: "pentium"Unless I stand corrected, you are now the first person on the internet, period, to upload a video of a cube MO booting.

I may have beaten him to it. The sound of it seeking is quite amusing.
Title: Awesome
Post by: ErikTheHack on August 10, 2015, 05:49:48 PM
Damn, there aren't many working NeXT optical drives out there in the world.  The last time I tried to use mine it emitted the magic white smoke that makes all electronic devices work ;)  -- After that mine never worked again.  Kudos!

...Still looking for a replacement OD drive BTW.
Title: I posted a Video of NS 0.8 booting from MO
Post by: barcher174 on August 10, 2015, 08:47:20 PM
I have some for sale in the marketplace, but they are admittedly quite pricey. It's a multi-day process to restore them with roughly a 40% success rate.
Title: Re: Awesome
Post by: pentium on August 12, 2015, 12:18:56 AM
Quote from: "ErikTheHack"Damn, there aren't many working NeXT optical drives out there in the world.  The last time I tried to use mine it emitted the magic white smoke that makes all electronic devices work ;)  -- After that mine never worked again.  Kudos!

...Still looking for a replacement OD drive BTW.

Wait, wasn't that the drive that you tried ejecting by software before you tried ejecting by means of the eject key?

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