17 Dec
2001
17 Dec
'01
11:34 a.m.
I should add to the list of hard to find stuff early Intergraph
workstations. Clipper based, and pre-clipper (were they VAX?) Intergraph
systems.
I also haven't looked -- but have never seen any DG Nova stuff around. It
may be relatively rare.
On another note, CDC hardware that wasn't OEM'd from SGI seems relatively
uncommon. There's one CDC workstation that was a re-badged Indigo, that's
relatively common. It's the only CDC system I've seen for sale.
Regards,
Chris
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17 Dec
17 Dec
11:52 a.m.
Christopher Smith wrote:
I also haven't looked -- but have never seen any
DG Nova stuff around. It
may be relatively rare.
Nova 2 and 3 stuff shows up fairly often, as does the occasional 32-bit
Eclipse. I'd love to get my hands on an S/280 or even a S/130 but
haven't managed to as of yet. An original Nova (two CPU cards, 4K
core boards) would be an incredible find, as would a Supernova SC.
I've never actually _seen_ an M/600, much less seen one up for grabs.
According to Terry Dowling this 16-bit machine actually had enough
hardware hooks to do demand paging but nobody ever got around
to implementing it in AOS.
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12:37 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Chris Kennedy wrote:
haven't managed to as of yet. An original Nova
(two CPU cards, 4K
core boards) would be an incredible find, as would a Supernova SC.
Gee whiz, I've had an original Nova (two CPU boards, a 4KW core board) for
a few years. I never realized it was an 'incredible find'.
I haven't spent much time trying to get it restored, because for the first
year or so the task overwhelmed me (the more choices I have, the more
paralyzed I become). Lately, it's seemed less daunting (I understand more
of its theory of operation) but I haven't had the time to sit down to look
at it.
ok
r.
18 Dec
18 Dec
10:13 a.m.
Christopher Smith wrote:
I also haven't looked -- but have never seen any
DG Nova stuff around.
It may be relatively rare.
The only Nova I've seen around here was in a collection near the DFW area.
So I'd call them uncommon, but not rare, in this area.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
17 Dec
17 Dec
3:37 p.m.
I should add to the list of hard to find stuff early
Intergraph
workstations. Clipper based, and pre-clipper (were they VAX?) Intergraph
systems.
The early big servers were VAX based. In fact, they were mostly just
rebadged. RCS/RI has an Intergraph VAX 8550. It has some really strange
custom hardware in the disk controllers - something about these things
could do searches thru files on the disks for specific graphics entities
(for CAD) without bothering the processor. Odd.
There's one CDC workstation that was a re-badged
Indigo, that's
relatively common. It's the only CDC system I've seen for sale.
CDC was rebadging IRIS 3000 machines as Cyber 910s.
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