DPS-6 and Ultimate OS (was: MULTICS...)

From: Enrico Badella <enrico.badella_at_softstar.it>
Date: Fri Nov 3 05:13:08 2000

Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, R. D. Davis wrote:
>
> > Hmmm.... have to do something about that! The sounds that system
> > makes when running are too much fun to have it sit quietly. :-)
> > Anyway, it's good to know that one of these is being preserved.
> > Aside from no O.S., do you know if the hardware is ok, or
> > possibly ok? The system that I worked with had some sort of floppy
> > disk holder inside the front chasis panel with a diagnostics
> > floppy located there. Did you get one of these?
>
> I think so but can't remember. I bought this at a surplus auction in San
> Jose so I only got to it well after it had been decommissioned. It
> apparently came out of GE Nuclear in San Jose or thereabouts.

WOW! Does it glow green in the dark :-)

e.

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