Convergent Technologies; Was RE: Old Computer Companies

From: Ed Tillman <ETILLMAN_at_satx.rr.com>
Date: Sun Feb 2 17:30:00 2003

No luck on that one... I never had access to the operating system. I was
"strongly encouraged" to write applications to get a poor B26 network to
talk to both Honeywell and Sperry mainframes. I was quite the unhappy
camper at the time -- I could get it to talk to the Sperry, but nearly never
to the Honeywell, even with Honeywell and Sperry emulator packages. (I was
a 1Lt at the time, and they hadn't bothered to tell me they'd fired a GS-11
lifetime programmer for the same "failing...") Needless to say, I don't
have any love lost for CT or C3 systems.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey S. Worley" <Technoid_at_30below.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 01:53 PM
Subject: RE: Convergent Technologies; Was RE: Old Computer Companies


> Sorry to say that I don't. I have some 8" data disks with CG data on
> them, but they aren't boots. Sorry.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of Doc Shipley
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:43 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Convergent Technologies; Was RE: Old Computer Companies
>
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
>
> > Someone mentioned C3 the other day. That translates to Convergent
> > Technologies. I thing Burroughs bought them in the late 80's. I cut
> my
> > teeth on C3 gear. At age 8 I was an expert at crashing the Coast
> Guard
> > mini in Saulte Ste. Marie, Michigan.
>
> Wouldn't have a floppy boot set for CTOS, wouldja?
> I have a fully functioning B26 with drive slice. Boots to a login
> prompt from the harddrive, and I don't have any passwords.
>
> Doc
Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 17:30:00 GMT