On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
There's a
local surplus place selling a few Burroughs machines for $30
that look interesting, but I know nothing about them -- I'm not even sure
they're computers. I believe they were used by Delta airlines. There's
no clear model number on them, but the closest thing to one says "B 27
CLS" "3748 00681", so I'm guessing they are B27's which appear to
be
related to B25's which appear to be 186 boxen running BTOS (?) from
1985/86.
They are similar to the 25's that I used on Chanute AFB as an instructor up
until we closed the base in 1993. There waa also a clone (physically and in
working) made by NCR of both the B25 and 27. They did indeed run a BTOS
(Burroughs terminal Operating System) and a BASIC using an 80186 processor
housed in a square modular system that locked together. They had hard drive
modules and even servers that sat on the floor with a weird type of
removeable hard drive (Winchester?) When the terminal unit is turned on you
should see a series of periods showing activity in logging to the server. If
that stops then it's not connecting.
I have several modules, including a couple hard drive modules and a way
cool "Voice Processing" module I picked up on Sunday for a buck (I can't
wait to figure out what it actually does...I imagine its some sort of
voicemail module which would be too cool).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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