21 Dec
1998
21 Dec
'98
4:13 a.m.
Moving my pile into its new home, I came across the RAIR BlackBox
computer. Looks like a PC but its not. It has a unique bus with various
cards (hd interface, serial, parallel, etc). I have two that I got last
year sometime. Anyone ever hear of these and have any information about
them? Circa 1981.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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21 Dec
21 Dec
4:35 a.m.
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Moving my pile into its new home, I came across the RAIR BlackBox
computer. Looks like a PC but its not. It has a unique bus with various
cards (hd interface, serial, parallel, etc). I have two that I got last
year sometime. Anyone ever hear of these and have any information about
them? Circa 1981.
Whoa! Now that triggers a memory or two...
I came up against that critter during a stint at Control-C software
working with (for) Andy Johnson-Laird. I was doing an implementation of
MP/M II on it.
...or would have been if they (RAIR) had not kept changing the specs on a
weekly basis. End run was that RAIR finally cancelled the project and I
moved on to another job... (problem with a gig that depended on a
particular contract, eh?)
Seems like RAIR only lasted about a year after that... At least in the
states. Seemed like the company could never quite decide on the market
it was going after. An interesting looking critter for its time tho...
-jim
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5:07 a.m.
New subject: Rair systems
Sam Ismail wrote:
Moving my pile into its new home, I came across the RAIR BlackBox
computer. Looks like a PC but its not. It has a unique bus with various
cards (hd interface, serial, parallel, etc). I have two that I got last
year sometime. Anyone ever hear of these and have any information about
them? Circa 1981.
You're moving?, no chance of a garage sale is there ;-)
The Rair black box was a British machine. I probably have more info in
my extensive magazine collection but its all packed away for the moment.
Remind me in a month or two and I will look it up.
Regards
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7:26 a.m.
New subject: Rair systems
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Hans B Pufal wrote:
I'm moving the collection to a warehouse in Oakland where it will
eventually be open for public display (within a year I hope).
Moving my pile
into its new home, I came across the RAIR BlackBox
computer. Looks like a PC but its not. It has a unique bus with various
cards (hd interface, serial, parallel, etc). I have two that I got last
year sometime. Anyone ever hear of these and have any information about
them? Circa 1981.
You're moving?, no chance of a garage sale is there ;-) The Rair black box was a British machine. I probably
have more info in
my extensive magazine collection but its all packed away for the moment.
Remind me in a month or two and I will look it up.
Oh cool. I didn't think anyone would have ever heard of these, let alone
work with one as Jim did.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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