Sold on eBay: Convergent Technologies S/50 a.k.a. Unix PC, AT&T 3B1 Unix Workstation

Alan Perry aperry at snowmoose.com
Wed Jan 17 15:10:01 CST 2018


There is a link with a photo in my post that you replied to.

Here is another photo link -
https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/images/d/db/Windowsbyte27_%28Burroughs_B20%29.png

Here is a link to a B25 type system -
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/CTOS-B25.JPG/250px-CTOS-B25.JPG

My first job out of college was working at Burroughs on their mainframe-‘PC’ integration products.

alan 

> On Jan 17, 2018, at 12:46 PM, Mike Stein <mhs.stein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Are there any better pictures around of the B20/21/22 ? If not, I think I still have some brochures somewhere.
> 
> m
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Perry via cctech" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
> To: <cctech at classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Sold on eBay: Convergent Technologies S/50 a.k.a. Unix PC, AT&T 3B1 Unix Workstation
> 
> 
>> Are you sure?
>> 
>> The B20, B21, B22 looked like this - 
>> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102662660 - and 
>> nothing like the 3B1 or the S/50. The B25 and subsequent models (which 
>> are often referred to as B20s) are modular systems that are box-shaped 
>> and got wider as "slices" were added. The B20s were x86-based and the 
>> 3B1 (and presumably the CT S/50) was 68k-based.
>> 
>> alan
>> 
>> 
>>> On 1/17/18 2:41 AM, Dominique Carlier via cctech wrote:
>>> It's interesting, I had exactly the same machine a long time ago, but 
>>> with a different label. It was a Burroughs B20 distributed by Unisys
>>> 
>>> Dominique
>>> 
>>>> On 17/01/2018 06:45, AJ Palmgren via cctalk wrote:
>>>> Did it happen to be one of these older-style Convergent AWS machines?
>>>> 
>>>> http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2017/03/convergent-technologies-workstation.html 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 


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