7 Dec
2010
7 Dec
'10
12:10 p.m.
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:33:50 -0500
From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
Subject: Re: Drive Type International Memories, Inc. (IMI) 5012H
Weren't IMI's used in much of the earlier
Corvus drives too?
Yes, in fact Corvus later acquired IMI AFAIK.
Cromemco also exclusively used IMI drives with their WDI and WDI-II IMI
controllers before they finally went to an ST-506 controller, both the large
7000 series and then the smaller 5000 series; note that the 5000s were
available with either the 40-pin IMI interface or a standard ST-506
interface and the model numbers are not necessarily unique.
mike
7 Dec
7 Dec
12:22 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
Anyone have an Onyx C-8000 Computer or have any photo's or docs on them?
Either the Z80 version or the Z8000 version
Curt
8:21 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
On 12/7/10 12:22 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Anyone have an Onyx C-8000 Computer or have any
photo's or docs on them?
Either the Z80 version or the Z8000 version
I have one in storage in my former roommate's basement in NJ. He and
I have been out of touch for several years but I'm sure it's still
there. I'll retrieve it when I can. Family circumstances will have me
spending some time up north this winter, so I will actually have an
opportunity to retrieve it.
(oddly, I was just thinking about it a few days ago!)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
10:29 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
Thanks Dave, I was able to find a very grainy photo from Google Books
from the cover of an Infoworld issue.... kinda looks
like a rack mounted
tape drive, reminds me of the 3COM servers I worked on back in
88-89'
doing 3COM 3Plus Open server installs.
Let me know when you dig it up...
Curt
Dave McGuire wrote:
On 12/7/10 12:22 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Anyone have an Onyx C-8000 Computer or have any
photo's or docs on them?
Either the Z80 version or the Z8000 version
I have one in storage in my former roommate's basement in NJ. He and
I have been out of touch for several years but I'm sure it's still
there. I'll retrieve it when I can. Family circumstances will have me
spending some time up north this winter, so I will actually have an
opportunity to retrieve it.
(oddly, I was just thinking about it a few days ago!)
-Dave
10:20 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
On 12/7/10 9:22 AM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Anyone have an Onyx C-8000 Computer or have any
photo's or docs on them?
Either the Z80 version or the Z8000 version
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/X1641.99
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/X2218.2002A
10:31 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
Excellent! Thanks Al...
So, which is correct, did they run Oasis-8, CP/M and or Xenix or Unix
?!?!? I can't really nail down precisely the OS they were using.
Curt
Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/7/10 9:22 AM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Anyone have an Onyx C-8000 Computer or have any
photo's or docs on them?
Either the Z80 version or the Z8000 version
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/X1641.99
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/X2218.2002A
10:34 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
On 12/7/10 7:31 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Excellent! Thanks Al...
So, which is correct, did they run Oasis-8, CP/M and or Xenix or Unix ?!?!? I can't
really nail down precisely the OS they were using.
The Z80 box could run oasis and mp/m while the Z8000 box ran Unix.
11:52 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
On 7 Dec 2010 at 19:34, Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/7/10 7:31 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
When I used a C8000 circ 1982, it ran Xenix.
--Chuck
Excellent! Thanks Al...
So, which is correct, did they run Oasis-8, CP/M and or Xenix or
Unix ?!?!? I can't really nail down precisely the OS they were
using.
The Z80 box could run oasis and mp/m while the Z8000 box ran Unix. 
8 Dec
8 Dec
8:32 a.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Excellent! Thanks Al...
So, which is correct, did they run Oasis-8, CP/M and or Xenix or Unix ?!?!?
I can't really nail down precisely the OS they were using.
I wish I had more to give you, but there was a BBS in the Federal Way, WA
area back in the mid 80's that ran a custom Citadel on an Onyx system -
AFAIK it was a Xenix system of some kind.
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10:33 a.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Excellent! Thanks Al...
So, which is correct, did they run Oasis-8, CP/M and or Xenix or Unix ?!?!? I can't
really nail down precisely the OS they were using.
I have a friend whose company worked with Onyx C800x systems when they were current. He
said that they ran a flavor of Unix that was ported by Onyx themselves called Onix. He
still has a couple of machines but hasn't powered them up in years.
9 Dec
9 Dec
10:25 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
Really? He interested in parting with one? Does you have the Onix disks?
Curt
David Betz wrote:
On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum
wrote:
Excellent! Thanks Al...
So, which is correct, did they run Oasis-8, CP/M and or Xenix or Unix ?!?!? I can't
really nail down precisely the OS they were using.
I have a friend whose company worked with Onyx C800x systems when they were current. He
said that they ran a flavor of Unix that was ported by Onyx themselves called Onix. He
still has a couple of machines but hasn't powered them up in years.
10 Dec
10 Dec
1:22 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
On 12/9/10 7:25 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Really? He interested in parting with one? Does you
have the Onix disks?
Software was distributed on tape (unique format to the Onyx)
I've put what we had in the CHM archive on the C8002 up under
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/onyx
1:28 p.m.
New subject: Onyx C-8000???
Thats right, same like the 3Plus Open Servers, software only came on
tapes...
Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/9/10 7:25 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Really? He interested in parting with one? Does
you have the Onix disks?
Software was distributed on tape (unique format to the Onyx)
I've put what we had in the CHM archive on the C8002 up under
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/onyx
1:56 p.m.
New subject: UTek Installation Tape Images?
Hi, all,
I have a Tektronix 4132 (National 32016-based) Unix workstation that the
hard disk died in (A Maxtor XT3280), and I've managed to find a
replacement drive that works, but don't have any of the tapes (1/4"
DC300-style QIC 24) with the standalone utilities or UTek installation
on them. Stupidly, I never imaged the drive when the system was running,
so I have no way to bring the machine back up again.
I'm wondering if anyone out there has imaged the UTek installation
tapes. I think that the version of Utek is 3.2, but not positive. I
have an old Sun Sparc 1+ with a good QIC 24 drive in it that I could use
to recreate the tapes, and I have a good supply of known good tapes.
Just need the bits. I'd love to bring this old machine back to life,
but without an OS, it's pretty useless. Failing there being images of
the standalone utilities tape (bootable, serves as base for formatting
and partitioning drive, and installing UTek) and the UTek installation
tapes (I think it took two tapes if I remember correctly), maybe someone
out there has some tapes that I could try copying or imaging?
I know it's a shot in the dark, as these machines weren't very common in
their day, and are probably as rare as hens teeth today. But, I figured
if there was any place to post a plea for help, this is the best.
-Rick Bensene
8 Dec
8 Dec
7:16 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, MikeS wrote:
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:33:50 -0500
From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
Subject: Re: Drive Type International Memories, Inc. (IMI) 5012H
And, unfortunately, the older "flat cable" Corvus systems will only work
with IMI drives. I've tried Seagates with the same geometry as
replacements with no success. There's something different in their
behavior. One of these days I'll get ahold of a logic analyzer and try to
figure out what it is.
--
Weren't IMI's used in much of the earlier
Corvus drives too?
Yes, in fact Corvus later acquired IMI AFAIK.
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