<SHUDDER> you'd have to be a glutten for punishment! I've used them,
GCOS-6 isn't my idea of a fun time. Of course most of my experience was
with a DPS-8 and GCOS-8 (not much fun either). I hope whoever get's it
also good set of Doc's both for the software and the Hardware! If those
are the Honeywell drives I suspect, they're a pain.
BTW, the Navy used the DPS-6 for Supply computers, and started retiring
them in 1994. They also used them for other things. If you can find any
old "Data Processing Technicians" that never throw anything out, you might
be able to find some doc's if they went to any of the Honeywell schools,
most tossed the books after the class. Honeywell did have good training,
and most classes provided you with great manuals. I never took any DPS-6
classes so not sure what all they had, all my docs are for programming the
DPS-8.
Zane
>> Oh yeah? Where?
>
><snip>
>
>Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 08:26:32 -0500
>From: Russ Kreigh <kreigh_at_fwi.com>
>To: william_at_ans.net
>Subject: Re: Wanted: older computer stuff
>
>Honeywell DPS/6 Minicomputer
>2 Big 6 foot tape drives
>
>Located in northeast indiana
>
><snip>
>
>Contact him.
>
>William Donzelli
>william_at_ans.net
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