Chris M wrote:
I'm told my mystery box was made by Olivetti.
Remember
the unknown box with the "10 inch" drives.
Floppy or hard drives? You've triggered my memory now....
I vaguely recall (I was about 12 at the time I guess!!) my first "big
iron" was a BCS2???. It had a CDC external drive with 1 fixed disk and 1
removable 10MB cartridge. Don't recall the size but I guess 14". No
floppy, tape or other drives.
The machine itself was approx 1m wide, 1m high and 0.5m deep and was
based around a Z80 with an 8080 coprocessor. 192K total RAM IIRC - guess
some sort of paging system was used. The terminal was olivetti too with
a very nice blue phosphor screen.
Ran something called BOSS "British Olivetti System Supervisor" and
wasn't terribly interesting. Also had an RS232 connected dot matrix
printer which outlived the system by several years.
Anybody else know anything more about these systems?
James