Concurrent Computer Corporation

[Adrian Stoness]

Have u tried replacing said dead battery would start there

On Jul 30, 2016 12:51 PM, "Pontus Pihlgren" <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to revive and old unix machine. A Concurrent Computer
> Corporation series 8000. This seems to be a later version of Masscomp
> MC5600/MC5700 which has a manual in bitsavers. The system runs RTU
> (which I assumes means Real Time Unix).
>
> My machine is in great condition and both SCSI disks (Seagate ST516)
> seems to work fine and I've made images. But the machine panics at boot:
>
> ---
> panic: Unauthorized use of RTU
> For further assistance, contact Concurrent's
> Customer Service Technical Support Group
> ---
>
> The NVRAM battery is long dead and upon entering the console I get a
> complaint regarding the TOD clock, but I see no way of setting it.
>
> I can boot into a "stand alone mode" but not single user. In the SAM I
> can poke arround the filesystem and use "date" to set a date, but the
> clock appears not to be running.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this type of machine, either CCC or
> masscomp and can offer assistance?
>
> It's a dual MIPS machine with 16MB of memory.
>
> /P
>