Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Thu Jun 6 20:33:18 2002

Hi Curt,

I tried to email you, but it was rejected with an error message
"<curt_at_atari-history.com>: host mail.atari-history.com[216.74.138.181]
said: 501 5.7.1 <marvin_at_rain.org>... Sender domain must resolve". Got
your email, and I'll get back (somehow) with you next week.

Apologies to the rest of the listserver.

Marvin

Curt Vendel wrote:
>
> Okay, then that makes more sense. Yeah, the Apple and IBM cards were
> called Corvus Transporter Cards, so I would have to assume the same on the
> Dec Rainbows, it would be interesting to actually find one of those cards
> and have a look at it.
>
> Curt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Lafleur" <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:33 PM
> Subject: RE: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
>
> > No, the Rainbow had no built-in network ports except a serial port which
> > we had hooked to our VAX and used it with terminal emulation.
> >
> > Corvus had an add-in card for the Rainbow (and an ISA card for the PC)
> > that implemented their specific network protocol (I have no idea what it
> > was, but it was not ethernet or anything like that...)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
> > On Behalf Of Curt Vendel
> > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 7:12 PM
> > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> >
> >
> > So.... the Rainbows, weren't they still using DECnet and LAT through the
> > built in AUI??? Was the Corvus Disk Server LAT Compatible or
> > something???
> > This is very interesting.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Lafleur" <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
> > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:52 PM
> > Subject: RE: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> >
> >
> > > No, we didn't use our Corvus system with VMS. DEC Rainbows (semi-PC
> > > compatible machines running MS-DOS) and PC's are what we used it with.
> > >
> > > - Bob
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
> > > On Behalf Of Curt Vendel
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:24 PM
> > > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> > > Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> > >
> > >
> > > No way? Corvus worked on VMS too??? I never knew that, wow!
> > >
> > >
> > > Curt
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bob Lafleur" <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
> > > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:34 PM
> > > Subject: RE: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> > >
> > >
> > > > That was it. CORVUS, that's what we used to network our DEC Rainbows
> >
> > > > and PC's back in 1984.
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org
> > > > [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
> > > > On Behalf Of Curt Vendel
> > > > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:17 PM
> > > > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sellam,
> > > >
> > > > When Novell First started out in I think 1979 they used to be
> > > > NDS, Inc. (How Ironic right?) They started out doing custom
> > > > build-to-order
> > >
> > > > hardware
> > > > and software. They developed S-Net for serving files and printing
> > to
> > > > networked machines. Their biggest hurdle was getting files served
> > > to
> > > > all
> > > > of the diverse systems out there at the time (DOS, CP/M and so
> > > > forth) and I recall something about Noorda bringing in some
> > > > heavy-weight programmer who got their proprietary systems to connect
> >
> > > > to PC's and other systems and they when they went into a total
> > > > re-org, started working on Protective Mode OS's, changed their name
> > > > to Novell and really shook things up, one of my other favorites was
> > > > Corvus as they were really doing some remarkable stuff and
> > > > they got murdered by Novell as they just couldn't keep up. Anybody
> > > > remember the old 3Com 3+Open Network Servers that had to load
> > > everything
> > > > from QIC Tapes? How about Banyan Networks. :-)
> > > >
> > > > I remember in my early days of working as a technician I saw one
> > > > of
> > >
> > > > the first Novell fileservers that a "Network Engineer" was working
> > > > on and when he popped the case (Standard XT Type Case) it was a
> > > > custom M68000 motherboard, the first I'd ever seen before and I was
> > > > amazed and it always stuck with me and I've been meaning to go
> > > > looking for one as I've been working with Novell since 2.12
> > > > generating those good old NET$OS files (Oh joy!).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Curt
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
> > > > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:46 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Wanted: Original Novell 68000 System
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > Anyone have on the original Novell 68000 based systems for
> > > > > > > sale/trade?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Actually, I have two systems including a hard drive subsystem
> > > > > > with IIRC 2 Rodime 40 MB very noisy hard drives. Since I've
> > > > > > never fired
> > >
> > > > > > them up except for the hard drive module, I don't know if they
> > > work
> > > > > > or not. They do not have any software with them but they seem to
> > > be
> > > > > > complete and were
> > > >
> > > > > > working when pulled from service. Since I am cutting back on
> > > > > > most things that are post 1982 or so, these are extra. Contact
> > > > > > me off list if you are interested.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wow, that's cool. I didn't realize Novell started on the 68000.
> > > > > Did it serve files for a PC network? How similar is the NOS to
> > > > > later versions of Netware?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sellam Ismail Vintage
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Received on Thu Jun 06 2002 - 20:33:18 BST

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