9 Apr
1998
9 Apr
'98
4:30 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> They are similar to the 25's that I used on Chanute AFB as an instructor up
> until we closed the base in 1993. There waa also a clone (physically and in
> working) made by NCR of both the B25 and 27. They did indeed run a BTOS
> (Burroughs terminal Operating System) and a BASIC using an 80186 processor
> housed in a square modular system that locked together. They had hard drive
> modules and even servers that sat on the floor with a weird type of
> removeable hard drive (Winchester?) When the terminal unit is turned on you
> should see a series of periods showing activity in logging to the server. If
> that stops then it's not connecting.
Then what? All I got was the terminal (which I wrongly thought was a
standard RS-232 terminal -- it appears to be much smarter and more tightly
integrated than that) and the CPU module (plus an internal RAM expansion
card).
Can I do anything else besides stare at the following message:
Burroughs Corporation
R 1.1.0000 B27-CLS FM
***************
I have several modules, including a couple hard drive
modules and a way
cool "Voice Processing" module I picked up on Sunday for a buck (I can't
wait to figure out what it actually does...I imagine its some sort of
voicemail module which would be too cool).
A "couple" of hard disks, as in "one extra"? :-)
-- Doug