22 Sep
2015
22 Sep
'15
12:50 p.m.
Pretty futile to restore until I have manuals and a load tape if
needed in front of me. The previous owner said it powered up and did not
blow smoke so that is a good thing... but even still that was many
many years ago.
Unlike you Jay that has a 'mountain' of DG stuff in front of you to
*wicker basket something together from... all I have is this one lonely
rack!
I have no familiarity with DG op/sys at all.... never ran one ..
I did had an orig NOVA ( lo s/n no other suffix after it... about
the first year I was in the computer business sold it to someone... I
did try to track it back but they guy has scrapped it... as I
found out 30 years later.
BUT! I figure DG sould have some sort of representation here... and
if it attracts MORE DG so be it!Least case it needs a terminal to
display with it and ... yes... A POSTER!
This month's 'make computer work ' project is HP-3000 related.
In a message dated 9/22/2015 12:04:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
jwest at classiccmp.org writes:
Ed wrote...
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Our Eclipse is not as grand as some photos ,,, and the tape drive is
a
small side by side reel unit that fits in the single rack here is a
photo of ours....
http://www.smecc.org/data_general.htm
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There's nothing non-grand about that. Nice non-blinken Eclipse with 6125
tape drive, and some type of disk unit in the bottom. Nice.
And...
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had it for years need manuals etc and maybe some sales lit.
or
scans of advertising material to display with it... but yea... it
cries out to have a terminal with it!
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No, it cries out to be restored and run rather than just sitting under a
poster. But that's just me.
J