6 Jun
2002
6 Jun
'02
7:33 p.m.
No, the Rainbow had no built-in network ports except a serial port which
we had hooked to our VAX and used it with terminal emulation.
Corvus had an add-in card for the Rainbow (and an ISA card for the PC)
that implemented their specific network protocol (I have no idea what it
was, but it was not ethernet or anything like that...)
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Curt Vendel
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 7:12 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
So.... the Rainbows, weren't they still using DECnet and LAT through the
built in AUI??? Was the Corvus Disk Server LAT Compatible or
something???
This is very interesting.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Lafleur" <bob_lafleur(a)technologist.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
to
Computer
No, we didn't use our Corvus system with VMS. DEC
Rainbows (semi-PC
compatible machines running MS-DOS) and PC's are what we used it with.
- Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Curt Vendel
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:24 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
No way? Corvus worked on VMS too??? I never knew that, wow!
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Lafleur" <bob_lafleur(a)technologist.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:34 PM
Subject: RE: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> That was it. CORVUS, that's what we used to network our DEC Rainbows
and PC's
back in 1984.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Curt Vendel
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:17 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
Sellam,
When Novell First started out in I think 1979 they used to be
NDS, Inc. (How Ironic right?) They started out doing custom
build-to-order
> hardware
> and software. They developed S-Net for serving files and printing networked
machines. Their biggest hurdle was getting files served
to
> all
> of the diverse systems out there at the time (DOS, CP/M and so
> forth) and I recall something about Noorda bringing in some
> heavy-weight programmer who got their proprietary systems to connect to PC's
and other systems and they when they went into a total
re-org, started working on Protective Mode OS's, changed their name
to Novell and really shook things up, one of my other favorites was
Corvus as they were really doing some remarkable stuff and
they got murdered by Novell as they just couldn't keep up. Anybody
remember the old 3Com 3+Open Network Servers that had to load
everything
from QIC Tapes? How about Banyan Networks.
:-)
I remember in my early days of working as a technician I saw one
of
the first Novell fileservers that a "Network
Engineer" was working
on and when he popped the case (Standard XT Type Case) it was a
custom M68000 motherboard, the first I'd ever seen before and I was
amazed and it always stuck with me and I've been meaning to go
looking for one as I've been working with Novell since 2.12
generating those good old NET$OS files (Oh joy!).
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> > > Anyone have on the original Novell 68000 based systems for
> > > sale/trade?
> >
> > Actually, I have two systems including a hard drive subsystem
> > with IIRC 2 Rodime 40 MB very noisy hard drives. Since I've
> > never fired
> > them up except for the hard drive
module, I don't know if they
work
> > or not. They do not have any software
with them but they seem to
be
>
complete and were
> > working when pulled from service. Since I am cutting back on
> > most things that are post 1982 or so, these are extra. Contact
> > me off list if you are interested.
>
> Wow, that's cool. I didn't realize Novell started on the 68000.
> Did it serve files for a PC network? How similar is the NOS to
> later versions of Netware?
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Festival
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