11 Feb
1999
11 Feb
'99
2:43 p.m.
What you want is an Intergraph InterPro. Stay away from the InterVue (huge
cabinetry, with motors for the monitor platform and digitizing surface,
etc) and InterActs. (I have an InterPro 2000, dual screen machine).
The first InterPro was actually based on National 32000 chips. But after
that, they were all Clippers. Intergraph ended up bying the Clipper part
of the business from Fairchild, then a few years later went NT/Intel.
An InterPro 2000, 2020, etc. would do nicely. Although many were dual
screen, you can actually operate them with just one screen (and it might be
possible to disable the 2nd screen hardware -- I have never tried that with
mine though).
Wisconsin DOT has been unloading quite a few of these of late, and they
show up at the U. Wisconsin "SWAP" sale (every Friday -- they moved
recently to the East side of Madison, WI) occasionally from that source. I
paid about $50 for mine (but got a PS/2 server loaded with SCSI drives as
part of the big box of stuff I got).
Their Unix operating system, CLIX, was largely System V based, with TCP/IP
networking from Lachmann and Assosciates.
Intergraph recently released Y2K software for the beasties.
Best of luck.
Jay Jaeger
At 01:57 AM 2/9/99 -0800, Kevan Heydon wrote:
Hi,
I would like to get a Clipper CPU based workstation but know very little
about what models were made. Does anybody have any information on what
machines Intergraph made. I do know that some models were huge dual
display + tablet systems. I don't have the room for these but if they did
smaller deskside or even desktop systems then these would be of interest.
Many Thanks
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Kevan
Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/
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