Help with Convergent Technologies

From: Bill Girnius <thedm_at_sunflower.com>
Date: Tue Jul 8 08:26:04 1997

Oh and the floppy drives are f0, f1 etc. I think a question mark an the
Command? prompt will give you more commands, What version of Ctos is it?

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> From: thedm <thedm_at_sunflower.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Help with Convergent Technologies
> Date: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 5:33 AM
>
> Okay, [SyS][sys] is the first hard disk, then d1, d2 d3 etc
> It was strictly an office automation machine, usually it came with
Document
> designer, Office spreadsheet and Bmail. When it boots, it has a bunch of
> dots run across the screen, seems to me at this point it tells you the
> software license. The licenses are, standalone, 5user, 10 user, 25 user
and
> 48 user. These machines had the networking built in. There are two
RS422
> ports on the side, you can put 24 machines in a daisey chain on each
side.
> There is a surplus store here with buttloads of them and no one wants
them
> because they don't know what they are. These boxes are INtel based, but
> propriatary as hell. There is a DOS emulator available or was. Unissys
> currently owns this platform as of 1986, before then it was sperry, and
> then your model convergent, allthough convergent still made alot of the
> hardware under subcontract. If you ask me more specific questions I can
> probably remember more. It's been 5 years since I even touched one.
>
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> > From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros_at_u.washington.edu>
> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> > Subject: Re: Help with Convergent Technologies
> > Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 7:53 PM
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, thedm wrote:
> >
> > > Is this a little square box cpu with a buss on the side? and ad ons
> that
> > > lock onto the side of it? If it is I used to administer a Convergent
> > > network, it uses the BTOS/CTOS operating system and uses JCL for
batch
> > > programming. Its almost useless with out the native software and if I
> > > recall our licenses where about 10,000 for a 48 user network. They
do
> make
> > > a standalone version, but I'll be darned if i would ever know where
to
> find
> > > it.
> >
> > That'd be the one.
> >
> > It has an OS installed; with the CPU I also picked up a QIC unit, 10
meg
> > disk/floppy unit, a 'disk expansion' unit of unknown size (I'm short
one
> > power supply), and a GC-001 graphics unit, as well as boxes of QIC
tapes
> > and 360k floppies. The OS is installed along with lots of other stuff
of
> > unknown purpose on the hard disk/floppy box. It boots fine; I can play
a
> > little with it, but I really don't know what's there.
> >
> > I'm able to get file listings of [sys]<sys> which I'm assuming is the
> hard
> > disk.
> >
> > I wish there'd been an operator's manual in the lot..
> >
> > ok
> > -r
Received on Tue Jul 08 1997 - 08:26:04 BST