12 Nov
2005
12 Nov
'05
8:34 p.m.
I have a couple of Fortune systems and some doc but
they're incomplete so I have done much with them yet.
If I ever find enough stuff to get them working I
will. We looked at Fortune years ago when my dad's
company was looking for a multi-user system for the
office. Kind of liked it at the time but the picked
an Altos instead as the company seemed a bit more
stable.
--- Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
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"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
David Williams
But I've
never heard of anyone collecting the
boxes. Any reason
for this?
Probably the same reason no one saved Onyx or old
Corvus 68k Unix boxes.
The Fortune was somewhat more interesting in that
they made an attempt
to package a 68K unix box as a biz desktop, but this
all happened at the
time that AT-class machines took over the world.
A friend of mine who came from Bell Labs had one,
and wasn't very happy
with what they had done with it if you actually
wanted to use it for
programming.
There are a few people who still have systems made
the SUN Multibus CPUs
(Callan, Forward Tech, et al)
I picked up some of the Fortune boards as they
showed up in the mid 80's
in surplus places, but got rid of them since they
really weren't that
interesting, and were pretty much impossible to get
docs on.