Altos 586 system sold on eBay

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:26:30 +0100 Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote: Is your Altos a 386-processor system? Those are much newer than the 586 which is a five-user 8086 system. Good news- I've heard back from the person who won the bidding on eBay. He didn't get a working boot diskette, but he did get (this is what has me excited about this) the Development Tool diskettes. With what Pat has said he probably has and these other disks, we may be able to pull together a good robust system setup for the Altos 586. I pointed him at Dave Dunfield's site where there's a boot diskette image, and recommended he contact Dave through the site about getting his disks imaged and available. He also got a lot of paper documentation. It will be really great if the OS and a C compiler comes together out of this. Then we can start porting over the classic UNIX sources and make these Altos boxes come alive again in a real way (a vintage UUCP network??). Scott