18 Mar
1998
18 Mar
'98
5:08 a.m.
My brother recently purchased a Data General AViiON AV-400 machine at an
auction ($20) It is in a tower case and has 16 MB RAM, 320 MB SCSI hard
drive. He was told by someone at DG that it runs at 20 MHz using a
Motorola 88000 processor.
He was able to get the machine to talk to a PC connected to the com port
and it works and comes up with
DG/UX Bootstrap version 4.3
error, logical partition not found
(or similar wording)
Does this mean:
(a) the SCSI drive is bad
(b) the OS has been deleted
And, if (b) how would he get a version of DG/UX or is there another flavor
of Unix that would run on the machine? There is very little on the net
about these beasts.
Any help appreciated!
- Ron Kneusel
rkneusel(a)mcw.edu