5 Aug
2008
5 Aug
'08
3:12 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Mark Davidson wrote:
Oh how nice it would be to have one of these again.
At one point, I
had Interactive's 386/ix and SCO's Open Desktop... there was
Microport's system, Esix (from Everex?), Venturcom's Venix, and others
I'm sure I have forgotten. I just remember the wall of manuals that
came with these systems. :)
I still have my ESIX 4.0.3A (yes, from Everex) installation from circa
1992. It's in a large cube, containing the manuals and software on 5.25"
diskettes. The manuals occasionally come in handy, for things like SVR4
curses.
My system was listed in Nixpub:
Updated
Last Telephone # Sys-name Location Baud Hours
----- ------------ -------- ----------- ------- -----
08/92 814-353-0566 cpumagic Bellefonte PA 12/24/96/14 24
80386, ESIX 4.0.3a (SVR4); Dual Standard (v.32/v.32bis/HST);
The Centre Programmers Unit BBS, custom BBS software (Micro Magic);
Files available: UNIX, GNU, X, ESIX, MSDOS tools and libraries;
No fee but up/download ratios enforced.
Contact: Mike Loewen at mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
or ...psuvax1!cpumagic!mloewen
That phone number is, of course, no longer in service. :-) I had a
UUCP dialup connection through the local University.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/