Re: AlphaPC failsafe floppy

[Jonathan Sturges <jonathansturges%yahoo.com@localhost>]

> On Apr 19, 2022, at 12:49 AM, Gabor Berczi <mail%gabucino.hu@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Apr 18, 2022, at 3:35 PM, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> 
>>> Does anyone have the AlphaPC (LX164) failsafe floppy image? The one
>>> which has the FAILSAFE file in the root dir.
>> 
>> I haven't heard of this. I have a 164LX that I haven't used in a long time.
>> What does this failsafe image do? I probably want a copy as well.
> 
> It's some kind of a debugger loadable with the CF7 jumper enabled (my board developed some fault and doesn't boot from the ROM), I've forgotten the details and my floppy developed bad sectors. I have no idea where did I download it from.
> 
> The contents should look like this:
> 
>   49497 May  2  2010 failsafe*
>    2295 Sep 24  1999 fwupdate.txt*
>  163940 Aug 26  2016 lx164nt.rom*
>  466944 Aug 26  2016 lx164srm.rom*
>     464 Sep 24  1999 readme.1st*
>   80715 Jul 20  1999 relnotes.pdf*
>  259868 Jul 20  1999 relnotes.rtf*
> 

Have you tried archive.org?  There’s also some unofficial mirrors of old DEC & Compaq FTP sites still online I believe.  If you know the image’s file name that will help tremendously.

Good luck,
Jonathan