24 Mar
2000
24 Mar
'00
10:33 p.m.
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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24 Mar
24 Mar
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.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
25 Mar
25 Mar
1:09 a.m.
Well, this model 586 has 5-1/4" drives in the main unit and the tape drive
is in a separate enclosure. These are desktop-style boxes, though I doubt
theyd be used on a desktop. The hard drive is a full-height nominally 40MB
5-1/4" drive. I've left this thing alone, though it's a source of Z-80 type
system parts. The HDC is a 2900-based number not particularly similar to
any other that I can recognize. The tape unit hasn't been opened yet. I
may get to that some day, but I see the two boxes as a source of parts and
little else. They're pretty heavy, so I don't anticipate shipping them
anywhere.
Dick
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From: Merle K. Peirce <at258(a)osfn.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 6:34 AM
Subject: RE: Altos machines
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:
> >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.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852
"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
26 Mar
26 Mar
2:04 p.m.
Hi,
If you can wait a day or two, a fellow classiccmper
and I are
going to be inventorying the Altos machines....
....there may be some documentation (we've several binders full
of it) on your machine.
Thanks, if you manage to find out ANYTHING do let me know.
BTW That list of machines you have is interesting. If you weren't the other
side of the planet to me I'd be after one of the 68K boxes....
TTFN - Pete.
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