23 Jul
2014
23 Jul
'14
4:23 p.m.
On Jul 23, 2014, at 15:29 , William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed! There's not as much of the Nova stuff sitting on open servers for anybody to
Google it up as there is DEC stuff, but I've been able to find useful documentation
and software by asking the Right People. So the Nova seems a bit opaque at first, but
it's not so bad once you figure out who to talk to.
I've been offered a good piece of money for my Nova 3, but I'm not sure that
I'd want to give it up. I certainly want to get the data off the hard drive before it
leaves my hands, because I've been interested in the back story of the fellow who
originally owned this machine and the PDP-11 system that came along with it. I'm still
working off-and-on on trying to get it to boot off the drive... and I'm liking the
machine more and more. The heavier end of my vintage computer collection is very
DEC-centric, but my Nova 3 rack is also pretty neat.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
Data General
ran a distant second place behind DEC, you might keep your
eyes out for that, although DG parts, software and documentation are not so
easy to find like DEC stuff is...
Some of us have a widely differing opinion on this. There is a *lot*
of it out there, if you look and ask. Much software, much
documentation.