Computers Manufactured in 1986

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Tue Apr 2 15:37:27 2002

On April 2, Christopher Smith wrote:
> AT&T Unix PC. 512k to 4M of ram [usually 1M], 40 to 60M hard drive,
> all in one system with a monochrome green screen, removable keyboard,
> and 3 button mouse. It also had a 5.25" floppy. It ran Unix SystemV
> R 3.0 or 3.5, I vaguely remember a port of some other system to run
> on it. Check some of the web pages you can find. There was a built
> in graphical windowing system, dynamically loadable drivers, and if
> you could get the ethernet board, or extra serial ports, you could
> run multi-user configurations. It could read/write (through special
> bundled software) MS-DOS disks, and there was also a DOS board for it
> with an 8088 CPU or something like that, and some RAM to let it
> actually run DOS, and DOS apps.

  What wonderful machines these are. The first ones, though, shipped
with 10MB drives, not 40MB, and it was SYSVR2, not 3.

  I sold these machines at a computer store when I was in high school,
and later had one of my own as my first real UNIX machine. Stupidly I
sold it many years ago. Thanks to the assistance of a fellow lister
(hi Mark!) I finally have one now, which I will keep forever.

         -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire                    "...it's leaving me this unpleasant,
St. Petersburg, FL                 damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar
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