DPS-6 and Ultimate OS (was: MULTICS...)

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote: Hmmm.... have to do something about that! The sounds that system makes when running are too much fun to have it sit quietly. :-) Anyway, it's good to know that one of these is being preserved. Aside from no O.S., do you know if the hardware is ok, or possibly ok? The system that I worked with had some sort of floppy disk holder inside the front chasis panel with a diagnostics floppy located there. Did you get one of these? That looks like a much nicer system than the one I worked with; it also appears newer. Looking at the tape drive on yours, it doesn't appear to use a vacuum column for the tape tension. When the CPU cabinet's front door was opened, instead of what all I see in yours (what all's there?), there was just metal screening that allowed one o see the lights on the boards in the card-cage. -- Copyright (C) 2000 R. D. Davis "The best way to gain a true understanding of All Rights Reserved Wile E. Coyote on the Roadrunner cartoons is to rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 fly, head-first, off a horse into something like http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd a fence or a tree; trust me, this works." --RDD