Burroughs systems

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Sun May 5 22:18:22 2002

> The A series is a mainframe. They did do some PC based A series, as
> well. I think it was sort of like the S/390 boards that IBM put into
> some PS/2's. I don't know about the U6000/35.

I have one here. I was pretty lucky, it was literally a dumpster dive.
    (lucky also in that it was a very small dumpster)
It was in a seemingly innocent wide desktop case. What made me
stop and savor was a very large very custom chip on one of the bus
cards. It functions as a 'symbiont', you start up the motherboard and
it gives over various functions to the buscard. The folks on
comp.sys.unisys gave me a nice command set manual but I am no
expert in theory of operation.

John A.
Received on Sun May 05 2002 - 22:18:22 BST