IIRC, Morrow Designs biggest, baddest S-100 machine (used a switching PS!)
could run CP/M but with a special boot ROM (on the backplane with serial I/O
I believe) also ran UNIX System V substituting a 68000 CPU board for the
usual Z80. That was the Tricep I believe, which came out around 1984.
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:16:34 -0700, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
>
> I used to have a CPU S100 board that I built for the National
> PACE. That
> CPU was a catastrophe. So slow and with very little NS support.
> Given
> its very early introduction, it could have been a comer had NS
> taken any
> interest in it. But at the time, NS was pushing the SC/MP and
> signing
> second-sourcing deals.
>
IIRC what made the NS PACE such a screaming shame was that it was a
clone of the Data General Nova 1200. The thought of being able to gen
up code on my lab system and stuff it into this little chip just made
me drool up until I discovered that, fearing the wrath of DG, they
split the program counter. That made it a 256 word paged machine
rendering all the code generation facilities useless. It was a while
before DG came out with a chip set that was priced out of sight
(another company which wouldn't share...).
CRC
Perhaps a little off-topic, but...
I need to locate a (hopefully inexpensive) backup software package, for use on Windows 2000, that will allow me to back up files over SFTP (FTP over secure shell) to a remote server. Said package needs to do so completely without user intervention (in other words, I don't want to make things any more complicated for my dad's system than I have to).
I've found a few, but they all seem to bear at least a three-digit price tag.
Thanks in advance.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"
> Current Macs share much more with PeeCees
> than SGI IRISes and Sun SPARCs, so there is most likely a non-insignificant
amount of suboptimal hardware that eats processor cycles
Please give concrete examples of this "suboptimal hardware" you speculate
about, and give examples of how this is done better on SGI or Sun DESKTOP
CLASS Hardware.
Hi,
Just added a new (old) Data General Computer to my collection.
Thought I would
share it with those who are interested.
http://homepage.mac.com/irisworld/PhotoAlbum4.html
Yep, a Nova 2. I acquired this computer with 2 diablo drives,
power / controller unit, and cables.
Rob
ps. Even received 2 cartridges for the drives.
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to forward a LAT connection to
either SSH or Telnet on a VMS 8.2 machine? I have a PDP-11 running RSTS/E
that has no form of TCP/IP available, only LAT and DECnet, and I want to
make it available via SSH connection through the VMS system. Any help would
be appreciated.
Julian
When trying to eject a cartridge from one of my JB's,
I get a "MISLOAD" error reported on the front panel.
Media is accessible, otherwise, just won't eject.
I've never seen this before. And the choice of
message seems misleading (I could understand a "misload"
on a *load* but not an "eject"!)
I've just started to take the skin off the JB so I
can get access to the drive. Is this just a nuisance
error (perhaps caused by manhandling the JB while
media was loaded) or a harbinger of Bad Things to come?
:<
I've acquired a couple of tubes of these chips, NOS as far as I know, and
can't seem to find any data on them at any of the usual places, though the
COM90C66 datasheet mentions it briefly. I did find one email where a guy was
looking for some but the post was several years old and the email address
didn't work any more.
Anybody have a datasheet for these? Know what they're good for? Need some?
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I found some 5.25" floppies labeled "TRICEP UTILITIES" and "tricep
standalone with UNIX". Anyone know what that might have been?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
I have 2 that I picked up the other day. They "appear" to power up (e.g. lights, drive seeking, etc). I tried 2 different monitors, but I don't get any video. Any troublshooting tips, or should I connect to the serial A port and see if there is any outut there?
Any other things that could cause no apparent video on these units?
thanks,
Kelly
