Convergent AWS machines (formerly Sold on eBay: Convergent Technologies S/50 a.k.a. Unix PC, AT&T 3B1 Unix Workstation) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jan 2018

Alan, my apologies for the confusion here.  The email subject still said
S/50, but I believe we had switched topics mid-thread.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 6:16 AM, dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:

...
  Years ago, we used one of the Convergent machines. I
recall playing rats
 on it. It had a green screen. It was a 8086 processor and had some
 Multibus slots in it.

I was replying to Dwight with a link to my AWS machine when Dominique
chipped in with the Burrows comment.

I believe that Dominique was referring to my AWS that I show at
http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2017/03/convergent-technolog
ies-workstation.html

And I agree with you wholeheartedly on your points.  They look nothing
alike, and are based on totally different processors.

|Alan Perry via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org>
|
|As I mentioned elsewhere, I worked on software for them at Burroughs
('86-'89). I
|picked up a bunch of B25 stuff in '03, but I could never find any software
for
|them. In retrospect, I wish that I has stashed away B25 (and B1000 (I was
one
|of the last people in the office supporting software onthe B1000)) stuff,
rather
|than return everything, when I left the company.
|
|alan

That's very cool that you worked on the software.  And, yes, Alan, agreed
about wishing to keep a few of them around...But, I may be able to get the
one that I have running soon.  I'll be working on it on and off this year.

I plan on trying trying to restore the Convergent CTOS on this, rather than
the Burroughs BTOS, at least at first anyway...

I'll keep you posted here on my progress on that.

Thanks, all!

Best,
-AJ

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Alan Perry via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:

...
  Are you sure?

 The B20, B21, B22 looked like this - http://www.computerhistory.org
 /collections/catalog/102662660 - and nothing like the 3B1 or the S/50.
 The B25 and subsequent models (which are often referred to as B20s) are
 modular systems that are box-shaped and got wider as "slices" were added.
 The B20s were x86-based and the 3B1 (and presumably the CT S/50) was
 68k-based.

 alan

 On 1/17/18 2:41 AM, Dominique Carlier via cctech wrote:

  It's interesting, I had exactly the same
machine a long time ago, but
 with a different label. It was a Burroughs B20 distributed by Unisys

 Dominique

 On 17/01/2018 06:45, AJ Palmgren via cctalk wrote:

> Did it happen to be one of these older-style Convergent AWS machines?
>
> http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2017/03/convergent-technolog
> ies-workstation.html
>
>
> 

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