Very jealous... Have fun....
Still searching for an intact C8p or c8p-df...
George
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George L. Rachor Jr. george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon
http://racsys.rt.rain.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Mike wrote:
> Wow. Hi everyone.
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> A hot tip, a long drive, lots of digging, and a pocket full of kryptonite
> turned up an OSI C3C12 yesterday! It's a 4 component system including the
> CD2 8" floppys, a big CD23 Shugart SA4000 harddrive, and a Hazeltine
> terminal
> that's OSI branded (neat.) It sports a 17 slot backplane with a 525, 590,
> CSS cpu+ (that is cracked), and 3 522's now in it. I found another box of
> boards that had 2 510's (my favorite), a 555, 2 550's, 2 470's, and 3 520's,
> and a CA-18E ((on a 550 board)?) that hints at level III networking) Also
> got a bunch of software like os-65u v1.43 timeshare, ( w/mputil...) Looks
> like it can handle 3 users maybe. And there are boxes of disks I haven't
> even gone through yet.
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> The documentation was a wonderful find too. Most of it is preliminary docs
> of things like the:
> Ohio Scientific Multiple User Computer System Manual
> C2-8p Users Manual
> C3 Setup and Operations Manual (with the C3 Utilities and Demo disks
> (!!!))
> OS-DMS
> Shugart SA4000 servicing info
> OS-65u Ref Manual
> a *huge* binder of tech and sales newsletters
> and a real cool OSI Servicing Data book for *many* of the osi boards
> from 470-594 and cii and cIII systems
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> Then the ghost of classiccmp-past infused and led me back to a dark dusty
> workbench where I scored 3 boxes of molex connectors that I needed
> desperately.
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> Oh, I found a Motorola EXORmacs system in the same pile too. yipee!
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> My home is smaller. One happy ccmper signing off...
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> ;)
> - Mike: dogas_at_leading.net
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Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 15:02:34 GMT