22 Jan
2018
22 Jan
'18
9:57 a.m.
On 2018-Jan-22, at 1:24 AM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote:
My interest would be from having the first Sun systems
in the Portland
Oregon area. It consisted of a 3/260 w a Fujitsu Eagle, and a 90 ips 9
track that I cant remember the make.
Tied to it where 3 3/50s. Initially diskless then I added a 40 MB drive to
each of them.
Networked into the companies network, tapped into on of the yellow coaxes
up in the ceiling.
I all was for running Interleaf. Oh yea printing was via a Imagin (sp?)
print engine.
The early 'compact' laser printer ca. 1984 (table-top sized as opposed to the
20sqft of floor space of the 1st gen of laser printers)?
My recollection is it was "Imagen".
I took it as incorporating "image", and "generate" or
"engine" (my perception).
We had one in the CS department. Nice for the time, but required regular
cleaning/maintenance, dept. tech guy would roll his eyes - " . . again?"
Wasn't the internal controller the early Sun processor board (basically a 68000
single-board computer that preceded or was used in the Sun 1), or am I conflating things?
(We had a Sun 1 quite early as well).