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First post, by LChackr

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Retail ULSI Math Coprocessors came with a utility diskette. The last I had seen a few years ago nobody had archived one of them yet. Does anyone have a source for one?

I know a few other ones like IIT have finally been found.

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 11, by Horun

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I have no seen ULSI's yet. Just the Intel and IIT plus some generics....

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Reply 2 of 11, by Grzyb

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I have had this thing for years... time for the unboxing ceremony?

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Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 3 of 11, by Horun

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Grzyb wrote on 2023-09-09, 00:06:

I have had this thing for years... time for the unboxing ceremony?

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Wow! Nice ! Hope the disk is still readable. If you open the package just right (maybe just the top two pinch points and shake the disk out 😉 ) you can keep the never opened look since it one of those clam shells, ....

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Reply 4 of 11, by Grzyb

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Is it supposed to open without cutting through the joints?

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 6 of 11, by Grzyb

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The snap buttons must be heat-sealed, holding strong...

Edit: there's the instructions there...
"To open slide scissors between plastic and cut rivets"

New-in-box stuff is nice... but it's also nice to protect software from bit-rot...

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

Reply 7 of 11, by Horun

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You might be able to use a exacto knife or razor knife (like a box cutter/sheet rock knife) and just cut thru the top ones....just a thought

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Reply 8 of 11, by exiled350

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Been trying to archive everything I have, this seems like the best starting point. The disk image was also made on the same system as the mathco is installed and has been since the early 90s. I can also make a flux image of the disk too, just haven't set that all up yet.

https://archive.org/details/ulsi-mathco-rel-1.2

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Reply 9 of 11, by Horun

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exiled350 wrote on 2023-09-09, 12:59:

Been trying to archive everything I have, this seems like the best starting point. The disk image was also made on the same system as the mathco is installed and has been since the early 90s. I can also make a flux image of the disk too, just haven't set that all up yet.

https://archive.org/details/ulsi-mathco-rel-1.2

Thanks ! Checked it with DiskImage viewer (IMDV) and it shows a disk full of data but when converted (IMDU) to raw file it only shows ULSI.EXE.
Is that the only file on the floppy disk ?

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Reply 11 of 11, by LChackr

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exiled350 wrote on 2023-09-09, 12:59:

Been trying to archive everything I have, this seems like the best starting point. The disk image was also made on the same system as the mathco is installed and has been since the early 90s. I can also make a flux image of the disk too, just haven't set that all up yet.

https://archive.org/details/ulsi-mathco-rel-1.2

YOU ARE AWESOME!

Thank you!