26 Nov
2013
26 Nov
'13
7:10 a.m.
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Al Kossow wrote:
On 11/26/13 6:15 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
This machine came from a company who were developing third-party software for
the
Concept and there's a lot of source code in
the 40-odd 8" diskettes.
Well that would certainly be interesting. > If you need images of the 8" system
distribution, let me know. The stuff
> on Bitsavers is interesting, but it's unclear whether it includes an
> unmodified set of the original system software.
>
One of the things I changed in my disk reading process
a couple of years ago
was always scanning the diskette labels exactly because of not knowing if the
disks were originals or not.
I have a couple of weeks off in December and will make time to scan the
diskettes and get you images.
The buffered controller came out pretty late in the
life of the Concept.
There were a couple of machines they tried to build
before they imploded,
including a Concept with an MMU running
Unisoft Unix (but no video), a 68010 machine they OEMed to Honeywell and
Valid Logic, a diskless PC clone, and finally an AT file server.
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