Since I'm replying to my own post, I get to top post too. The little
goober is a Convergence Technologies NGEN B26 cluster node, except this
one's fitted with a copy-protection serial dongle and a Barondata
keyboard. Looks like court-reporting software. It's an 8MHz 80186,
512k memory, weird green-screen graphics. Still haven't gotten past the
password prompt, but at least I know what it is now. There's a picture
of a B26 without the disk module at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/4011/pictures/ch009.jpg
Looks just like mine. The disk module is same size and shape, and
latches on alongside.
Is there a CTOS boot disk online anywhere?
Doc
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
> Hi.
> This was my birthday present, and a nice one indeed. It's so cool I
> can't find it at all on Google. It's a little modular desktop, the CPU
> unit & drive unit (5.25 floppy and 10M hard drive) are separate units,
> latched together. Each has its own external PSU. The display looks
> like a proprietary serial terminal, powered off the main unit on the
> DB25 connector. The keyboard plugs into the display base.
> On front it says "Series 186" on the system module and "Hard Drive" on
> the drive unit. The stickers on bottom have Model numbers "CP-001/9 AA"
> and "HD-002 AD" respectively. Both tags say "For use with N-GEN
> systems"
>
> It powers up, runs through a batch job that I don't recognise -
>
> $JOB blah blah
>
> $RUN blah blah
>
> $RUN blah blah
>
> and ends up at a login prompt that I can't go around. It claims to be a
> "BaronData Transcription System" running (OS t1stndmp 9.7X) or OZ 4.1.
>
> If I can find a v3 or v4 DOS disk, should this guy boot from it? I
> want to preserve the OS on it, but I also want to log in.
>
> Doc
>
Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 03:48:01 BST
