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#retrocomputing #oldunix #acorn #riscix

Today's project is/was to get the extremely rare #Acorn A680 working. Given its rarity and how I seem to be the only one with a working install of #RISCiX (which is a #BSD from the late 80s), I used the #RiscPC with #NetBSD to make a copy of the disk beforehand.

NetBSD dumpfs recognises it as a FFS variant, but rump_ffs won't mount it.

As for the A680, smoke came from the PSU when I powered it on and it didn't work