On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> > There's a local surplus place selling a few Burroughs machines for $30
> > that look interesting, but I know nothing about them -- I'm not even sure
> > they're computers. I believe they were used by Delta airlines. There's
> > no clear model number on them, but the closest thing to one says "B 27
> > CLS" "3748 00681", so I'm guessing they are B27's which appear to be
> > related to B25's which appear to be 186 boxen running BTOS (?) from
> > 1985/86.
>
> They are similar to the 25's that I used on Chanute AFB as an instructor up
> until we closed the base in 1993. There waa also a clone (physically and in
> working) made by NCR of both the B25 and 27. They did indeed run a BTOS
> (Burroughs terminal Operating System) and a BASIC using an 80186 processor
> housed in a square modular system that locked together. They had hard drive
> modules and even servers that sat on the floor with a weird type of
> removeable hard drive (Winchester?) When the terminal unit is turned on you
> should see a series of periods showing activity in logging to the server. If
> that stops then it's not connecting.
I have several modules, including a couple hard drive modules and a way
cool "Voice Processing" module I picked up on Sunday for a buck (I can't
wait to figure out what it actually does...I imagine its some sort of
voicemail module which would be too cool).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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