30 Nov
2007
30 Nov
'07
7:28 a.m.
I've known about NNC for quite a while and have at least one of them around here
along with documentaion. It is a box with two vertical 8" drives and about the
width of a regular S-100 box. I just took a look in the 1983 DATAPRO Small
Computers notebook, and didn't see anything about them. That makes me think they
had disappeard by then.
BTW, I've found the DATAPRO marketing information to be a *great* souce of
information on a lot of the companies. I think Sellam might have a more complete
set of them.
From: jim s <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu>
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It has a VG 1 case repainted and
relabeled as a "No Name Computer" with all VG 5 components inside.
Seriously, it is called NNC and that is not a joke. It is a very strange
name.
There was a company called NNC located in Huntington Beach Ca in the
late 70's or early 80's that made basic S-100 hardware. I'll ask a
friend to get the names and history, but you may have an actual NNC box
and not a vector graphics system.
I don't recall VG's history but I think that a flood of their hardware
appeared on the junk market and someone may have built up a box from
parts using an NNC mainframe.
The NNC company built chassis with a backplane and power supply
initially and tried to do the entire system before collapsing. The
manufacturer was actually a guy who built components from sheet metal,
and found that building computer boxes was more profitable. I don't
know if there was a connection to VG but that would not be impossible.
Jim