3 Jan
2007
3 Jan
'07
7:58 p.m.
Does anyone have a machine with an Clipper RISC cpu in it?
Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph_Clipper> says that
only two companies ever used the Clipper (from Fairchild) were Intergraph
and High Level Hardware. HLH I never heard of before; Intergraph I
know of because they're big in CAD and GIS markets. Ah, WikiP says
that HLF was UK firm that made the Orion. Anyone got one?
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4 Jan
4 Jan
3:15 a.m.
Richard wrote:
Does anyone have a machine with an Clipper RISC cpu in
it?
Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph_Clipper> says that
only two companies ever used the Clipper (from Fairchild) were Intergraph
and High Level Hardware. HLH I never heard of before; Intergraph I
know of because they're big in CAD and GIS markets. Ah, WikiP says
that HLF was UK firm that made the Orion. Anyone got one?
If you follow the HLH link in the article you'll find York mentioned in
the list of UK Universities that used Orions. There were two Orions in
the Computer Science machine room when I went to York, and I know where
both went -- to a collector just along the road from me.
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4:29 a.m.
Richard wrote:
Does anyone have a machine with an Clipper RISC cpu in
it?
Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph_Clipper> says that
only two companies ever used the Clipper (from Fairchild) were Intergraph
and High Level Hardware. HLH I never heard of before; Intergraph I
know of because they're big in CAD and GIS markets. Ah, WikiP says
that HLF was UK firm that made the Orion. Anyone got one?
HLH were based in Oxford. We were offered one of the earlier (non-Clipper)
machines a while back but unfortunately I couldn't get anyone else at the
museum interested.
I was asking about these last year in uk.comp.vintage as I'd unearthed some
info that said my own uni (UKC) used to have some - yet I didn't recall seeing
them during my time there. Bit more info at:
http://tinyurl.com/yyomlf
Jim Austin still has one I believe, although when I spoke to him last year he
wasn't sure about install media. The UKC (non-Clipper) ones ended their days
as nothing more than tables for the Sun machines apparently, before they were
eventually dumped (the one mentioned at the start of this message is one of
these, and was rescued at the time by one of the sysadmins).
Key word when talking to anyone about HLH stuff seems to be "unreliability",
although they sounded like pretty good systems when they actually worked.
cheers
Jules
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8:44 a.m.
Richard wrote:
Does anyone have a machine with an Clipper RISC cpu in it?
Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph_Clipper> says that
only two companies ever used the Clipper (from Fairchild) were Intergraph
and High Level Hardware. HLH I never heard of before; Intergraph I
know of because they're big in CAD and GIS markets. Ah, WikiP says
that HLF was UK firm that made the Orion. Anyone got one?
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I have two Clipper based boxes, Intergraph Server 200 &
Intergraph Server 2000, both of which seem to be pretty good
hardware.
9:30 a.m.
In article <459D2F03.D4C54EBA at guntersville.net>,
"John C. Ellingboe" <john at guntersville.net> writes:
I have two Clipper based boxes, Intergraph Server 200
&
Intergraph Server 2000, both of which seem to be pretty good
hardware.
Sweet! What year were they made? Are you running CLIX on them?
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9:56 a.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <459D2F03.D4C54EBA at guntersville.net>,
"John C. Ellingboe" <john at guntersville.net> writes:
I have no idea of the manufacture date of either machine. They
do have a bit of age on them though. They both have CLIX
installed. I haven't played with them in quite a while.
I have two Clipper based boxes, Intergraph Server
200 &
Intergraph Server 2000, both of which seem to be pretty good
hardware.
Sweet! What year were they made? Are you running CLIX on them? 
1:12 p.m.
Richard wrote:
Does anyone have a machine with an Clipper RISC cpu in
it?
No, but I have a manual for the Clipper somewhere.
Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph_Clipper> says that
only two companies ever used the Clipper (from Fairchild) were Intergraph
and High Level Hardware. HLH I never heard of before; Intergraph I
know of because they're big in CAD and GIS markets. Ah, WikiP says
that HLF was UK firm that made the Orion. Anyone got one?
Again, no, but I did use one at Westfield College (University
of London) in 1984/85. We had two, one for research projects
and one for undergraduate Unix work. We also had a PDP-11/44
running V7 Unix and a Prime P750 running Primos and Software
Tools.
I don't know what happened to the Orions, but I can make some
enquiries.
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coredump at gifford.co.uk
1:23 p.m.
So noone has one of the Intergraph workstations? A pity. They were a
dominant player, you'd have expected some of the machines to survive!
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8:24 p.m.
So noone has one of the Intergraph workstations? A
pity. They were a
dominant player, you'd have expected some of the machines to survive!
There are quite a few in Rhode Island at both computer groups. Even an
Intergraph VAX, with weird disk controllers made to search for polygon
data in hardware.
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Will
5 Jan
5 Jan
8:48 a.m.
In article <e1d20d630701042024x624204cex8c707c5061f159f7 at mail.gmail.com>,
"William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
You say this as if I should know what "both computer groups" means.
Who has them? :-)
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So noone has
one of the Intergraph workstations? A pity. They were a
dominant player, you'd have expected some of the machines to survive!
There are quite a few in Rhode Island at both computer groups.
9:28 a.m.
You say this as if I should know what "both
computer groups" means.
Who has them? :-)
RCS/RI and RICM. Both groups are rather dormant and a bit introverted.
Both groups need a swift kick in the ass, too.
RICM actually has an absolutely huge collection, and both groups have
a good number of real gems in the collections.
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Will
9:36 a.m.
In article <e1d20d630701050928m5131a18duf71f7885d16016f1 at mail.gmail.com>,
"William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
Sorry to be a pest, but these acronyms don't mean anything to me.
Googling for RICM turns up "renewal in christ ministries" and a host
of other non-computer related things.
Do you have a URL or a full name?
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You say this
as if I should know what "both computer groups" means.
Who has them? :-)
RCS/RI and RICM. 
4 Jan
4 Jan
9:02 p.m.
On Jan 3, 2007, at 10:58 PM, Richard wrote:
Does anyone have a machine with an Clipper RISC cpu in
it?
Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph_Clipper> says that
only two companies ever used the Clipper (from Fairchild) were
Intergraph
and High Level Hardware. HLH I never heard of before; Intergraph I
know of because they're big in CAD and GIS markets. Ah, WikiP says
that HLF was UK firm that made the Orion. Anyone got one?
I have several Clipper CPU modules, but no machines wrapped around
them.
-Dave
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