11 Jan
2019
11 Jan
'19
10:49 a.m.
On Jan 11, 2019, at 9:58 AM, William Donzelli via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
There once was a port of Unix to the Series/1. Long story but the Unix center
of competency for IBM was first at Boca Raton (with Series/1 as the platform).
At the time AT&T offered to sell IBM the full rights to Unix and AT&T would get
out of the Unix biz. Then there was a political battle between Boca Raton and
Austin. Boca lost and the rest as they say is history. As part of that *all* (as in
every shred of) Unix for the Series/1 was destroyed (with IBM security looking
on to make sure nothing was missed).
TTFN - Guy
Looks like the "Mainframe" is an IBM
Series/1 which is not a Mainframe, and
I would say has limited appeal to collectors as there are few resources out
there as the software is all fully licenced so its had to make legal copies.
It does not help that the OS software also sucks.