Pyramid 90x - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Dec 2001

Here's what I know about the 90x... I haven't worked with 
Pyramid gear in about 9 years so I may be dropping a few bits.

The machine loads COS the diagnostic software from an 80 track
96 tpi 5 1/4 disk.  This contains the support software to 
download the necessary code into the machine to make it boot.

The operating system is OS/x (a BSD 4.2 or 4.3 and SysV rel 2 
or 3 hybrid).  I'd love to get a machine running that around so 
I could figure out how they do the dual universe stuff so I 
could do it with FreeBSD.

I used to teach OS/x Operations, Sys Admin, Comm and such for 
Pyramid and I also taught maintenance on their MIS series boxes.
I had a 98x (IIRC) in the office which was similar to the 90x.

Bill
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Bill Pechter
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---- On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Dan Cohoe (dancohoe(a)oxford.net) wrote:

...
  I recently brought home a Pyramid 90x. The old owner
who had  run the
...
  machine at his work in the 80's bought it from his
employer  about 1990,
...
  but never got it set up at home. 

 Apparently he decided to dump it a few months ago, but  because of its
...
  size didn't get the job done. However, he did put
all of the  software
...
  and the documentation on the curb for the garbagemen
at that  time. 
...

 Mike Kenzie and I got there just before he called the  recyclers for the
...
  machine itself.

 What I need is a boot disk or other software and any  documentation that
...
  might be out there. According to the old owner, it
starts by  loading
...
  the
 boot program off the 8" floppy before it can find the fixed  disks.
...

 Does anyone have anything for this machine?

 thanks,  Dan Cohoe