Corvus Concept

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Mon Aug 11 22:56:49 1997

Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal_at_MICROSOFT.com> writes:
> Does anyone know what a Corvus Concept is?

A little. I have one, haven't actually fired it up as yet but
have looked through the manuals a bit.

It's a 68000-based system, integrated monochrome graphics, can deal
with the monitor in either portrait or landscape rotation. (I'm not
sure how it knows which way you've positioned the monitor, I think you
have to tell it.) Has built-in Corvus Omninet, which means it can
hook up to an Omninet network with other stuff and I believe can be a
file server or a diskless system or a diskful stand-alone system.

I think Corvus had word processing and spreadsheet software for it, as
well as a Pascal compiler. The innards of the operating system (what
I saw in the programming manuals) reminded me a lot of UCSD
Pascal/p-System, but it didn't seem to have a p-machine in there
anywhere, it just ran 68000 code and I guess that is what the Pascal
compiler produces. I gathered it would be pretty easy to port stuff
developed for UCSD Pascal, and I guess that's not too surprising as
there was a bit of that deployed with Corvus networking on Apple ][s.

There was a review in Byte sometime in 1984 or maybe 1983. I don't
remember and all my Bytes are in storage, with the Concept and the
manuals and other documentation I have for it.

The monitor is the monitor. The base is where the CPU lives. If it
has disks they are in separate boxes; I think I have one that is a
hard disk and another that is an 8" floppy drive. There's an external
keyboard too.

If you have other questions, holler and I'll go find the manuals,
I really ought to inventory them anyway.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Mon Aug 11 1997 - 22:56:49 BST

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