On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:
> I saw a strange machine here a couple weeks ago. It was called an Altos
> 486, and a guy brought it into the shop because it had a password and he
> couldn't get past it. He thought it was a 486 PC obviously, but when he
This was a multi-user system circa early 80s.
> brought it in, he brought a serial terminal in with it! When we
> eventually fired it up, it turned out to be running SCO Unix (somewhat
> trimmed!) on an 8086, with (I think) 512k of RAM. It also had z80's on
> there, port controllers I think. Evidently it multitasked pretty well,
They also ran MP/M I believe.
> purposes (just some record keeping) but it was a hopeless cause. I'm
> going to do up an old 386 with a VGA monitor and see if he'll swap it
> for the Altos. Seems he bought it at auction (thought it was a pc
> because it said 486) for A$40.
I think that's a worthy trade. Put some cool game like Doom on the 386 to
make it extra sweet for him. The Altos would be a much funner machine
(for you) to play with.
Sorry I don't have much more solid info but I don't have any manuals yet.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 21:39:50 GMT