Anyone else with an interest in Fortune Systems ?

David: I am not sure that you saw my earlier response, which I only sent to the mailing list. My Fortune is complete and basically works, except that it has a really flaky hard drive. (It makes lots of noise and runs about 15 minutes before warms up and quits working). I would be very interested your parts machine, if it had a compatible harddrive and especially if it had an ethernet card. -Rob -----Original Message----- From: Rob Kapteyn [SMTP:kapteynr@cboe.com] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 7:24 PM To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' Subject: RE: Anyone else with an interest in Fortune Systems ? Hi: I retired mine when the Miniscribe 10MB hard drive gave too many errors to be useful. But otherwise, I have everything complete with manuals and disks. The only "extras" I ever got were some extra Unix utilities and a Fortran compiler. The "special terminal" is actually just a low-resolution monochrome monitor connected with an RJ-45 type connector. (Character based, no graphics) The keyboard plugs into a similar connector on the front. Later models had a keyswitch, mine does not. Fortune made very nice stuff at an acceptable price for their day, but they crippled everything by making it non-standard to try to control their market. If you wanted a cheap computer to do Fortran programming, like I did, the only competition was the original IBM PC, which was brand new back then. The fact that the Fortune ran Unix made me choose the Fortune. I have no time for my collection either, but with an economic recession on the way, I might soon find myself with lots of spare time :-) In your "parts" machine, you wouldn't happen to have an ethernet card, would you ? I know that they sold them, but they were too expensive for me back then. -Rob -----Original Message----- From: David Williams [SMTP:dlw@trailingedge.com] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 4:55 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Anyone else with an interest in Fortune Systems ? Hi, I've always been interested in them. I was hired back in the early 80s to pick a multi-user system for a business and that was one of the boxs we looked at. I have 2 of them and a third in parts along with some doc but don't have the special terminal to work with it. Thus I have never been able to bring them up. They seem to need some special key when trying to access these and I have no idea what sequence it sends so I could mimic it on another terminal. One day I plan on scanning the doc but haven't had the time. But since I've dropped one side job recently maybe now I'll have more time for my collection. David ----- David Williams - Computer Packrat You can learn to like the life you live or live the life you like. dlw(a)trailingedge.com http://www.trailingedge.com