I have a bunch of 6205 workstation boards, It was the bigger brother of the
61XX series. Strangely enough, The guy I'm working with at radisys designed
part of the IOP ( i/o processor ) on the 62xx series.
Jim Davis.
Rick Bensene wrote:
> Tektronix (the Oscilloscope people) built a line of early Unix workstations
> based on the National 16032 (which was the 16-bit bus version of the 32032).
> These machines were the Tektronx 6130 and the later Tektronix 4132. I have
> running examples of each. These machines ran a Tek-hacked version of 4.2bsd
> called UTek. The machines were essentially a single-board
> computer that had the CPU, some on-board RAM (1MB), a ST-506 hard disk
> interface (on the 6130) or SCSI-I Interface (on the 4132) a floppy
> controller (on the 6130), two serial ports, a GPIB port, an
> AUI connector for 10Mb Ethernet, and a bus interface that allowed various
> option boards (RAM, Async, Parallel, SCSI, GPIB) to be plugged in.
>
> These machines were actually pretty cool for their time...and if Tek
> would have marketed them properly, the could have competed with
> Sun's machines. But, Tek was an instrumentation company, and they
> really didn't know very well how to market a Unix workstation. Tek
> made another attempt at the market with the 43xx workstations, but
> these used Motorola 68K and 88K CPU's, and never really did very will
> with them.
>
> Rick Bensene
> The Old Calculator Web Museum
> http://www.geocities.com/oldcalculators
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 19:48:54 BST