Data General Nova memory boards

From: blstuart_at_bellsouth.net <(blstuart_at_bellsouth.net)>
Date: Thu Aug 2 19:10:01 2001

In message <NDBBJANPBJLMGEBPFCLKMELHCHAA.rnlion_at_its.caltech.edu>, "Rob Lion" wr
ites:
>In the daily dumpster rounds today, I ran across a pair of large boards,
>about 15" square, each labeled "DGC Nova2 16K memory, (c)1973 by Data
>General Corp". They're designed to plug into a backplane with a pair of
>cardedge connectors, 100 pins each. (This is, I'm sure, a well-known bus,
>but not well-known to me. :-) )
>
>Anyway, rambling aside, I don't really have any use for these boards. They
>both have pricetags on them saying $9.95, but I have no idea from when or
>where. So if anyone wants them for the price of shipping or wants to pick
>them up from Pasadena, CA, just let me know; I'll keep them around for a few
>weeks at least. Otherwise, maybe I'll (non-destructively) hang them on the
>wall.

Rob,
If you don't get any other offers, I'd like to take them off your
hands. As it turns out I have a Nova 2. I can't say in all honesty
however, that they'd be put to good use anytime soon. That
machine has been sitting in the garage unpowered for quite a while
now.

Brian L. Stuart
Received on Thu Aug 02 2001 - 19:10:01 BST