Burroughs B27?

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Apr 9 17:51:15 1998

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:

[mistakenly deleted attribution]
> > 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.

And was itself manufactured under license from Convergent, whose machine
it really was. I've got a Convergent Technologies CM001/8 that I've been
(incredibly) slowly learning about for a year and a half.

BTOS was licensed from Convergent also, who called it CTOS. The FAQ on the
net is for a different series of machines made by Convergent called the
'Miniframe' and the 'Mitiframe', which were almost completely different
from the CM machines, and were rather more popular too.

Where the Miniframe used a Motorola 68k processor and ran CTIX (a sort of
Unix), the CM machines were x86 based and ran CTOS, which I am led to
believe is a real-time OS. The Miniframe may also have ran CTOS as an
option, but I'm not sure.

> 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).

I'm pretty sure I read at least something about this module in one of the
systems manuals I've got. I'll try to find the reference again if I
remember. I'm pretty sure it's a voicemail/automated menu type system
module. If my memory can be trusted, that is...

ok
r.
Received on Thu Apr 09 1998 - 17:51:15 BST