11 Jul
1999
11 Jul
'99
3:53 p.m.
On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, Joe wrote:
This is another oddity that I spotted Friday. It's
a black box about 3
feet high by 1 x 2 feet with 2 chrome legs that stick out to one side with
castors on the end of them. It has an 8" floppy drive near the top and a FH
5 1/4" hard drive inside. There were several WIDE ( 60 pin?) ribbon cables
hanging out of it. Inside at the bottom it has a card rack with about 6 or
8 Multi-bus cards in it. The label on the outside says that it was made by
Daisy. Any one have any idea what it is?
Whoa...that's quite a find. I had a chance to play with one of those about
ten years ago, very briefly. It's a very nice CAD system. I'm almost positive
it's Sun-based, so if it's got multibus cards in it, there's a Sun-2 in
there.
That was a kickin' system when I saw it. I was amazed by its capabilities
and speed. My CAD work at the time was done using AutoCAD on a 10MHz 8088
(v20, actually) machine, and the Daisy system totally blew it away. I know,
that's not saying much, but it was impressive at the time. :-)
-Dave McGuire