24 Mar
2000
24 Mar
'00
11:34 p.m.
We have an Altos 8600 and what looks like an older 580 or 680 plus a few
terminals. We haven't done anything with them yet. the 8600 is rack
mounted with an 8 inch drive. The other one seesm to have 5-1/4's if I
remember correctly.
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
Does anyone
have any pointers to sites on the web which cover Altos
machines? I've done a search on Yahoo and a couple of other places and
turned up nothing.
Yes, there is a surprising lack of information "on the web" on Altos
machines.
I'm particularly interested in information on
the Unix systems they were
making around 1990 - we had one at work, an i386 in a tower case. Not PC
compatible IIRC, possibly called an "Altos III" or something similar.
If you can wait a day or two, a fellow classiccmper and I are going to be
inventorying the Altos machines that we've (temporarily) taken custody
of, as well as the documents. All the machines that we have are
19" wide by about 7.5" high tabletop units, often with 8" floppies in the
front so they're almost certainly older than your machine, but there may
be some documentation (we've several binders full of it) on your machine.
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