28 Jun
2001
28 Jun
'01
11:44 a.m.
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
A few days ago one of the storage rooms at the
university
was cleaned up and I grabbed all the computer-related stuff
that I could. Not a lot of variety, though. Besides
from the wintel carcasses and Mac plus remains, I found
one Datapoint 1550 and several modules from a type system that
I have never seen. The cpu, floppy disk drives and graphics
modules snap onto each other's side very neatly. There are
several of these systems, with the corresponding monitors and
keyboards. Alas, the only power supply unit that I found
is incomplete and badly damaged. Do you guys have some
info about these systems? Pics can be found at
The Datapoint 1550 is I believe just a terminal, but it may well be a
full-fledged computer. I know the model 1600 and 1800 are all-in-one
computers which were actually meant to be the CPU in a multi-node
Datapoint network (connected via ARCNET).
Look inside the unit and if there is a card cage then it's most likely a
CPU. Late 1970's vintage.
The modular boxes are a Convergent Technologies NGEN multi-user system.
They ran either Unix or some other DOS which currently escapes me.
Mid-80s vintage.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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