Santa, for Christmas I would like

From: james <james_at_jdfogg.com>
Date: Mon Nov 29 07:38:56 2004

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 07:29, Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 12:57:24PM -0500, james wrote:
> > Something blue and white and it says Data General on the front. If it
> > says MV it would be even nicer.
> >
> > Does anyone see these anymore? My brother was one of the developers of
> > AOS/VS and I would really like to restore one.
>
> They do exist. I picked up an MV2500 about 4 years ago from a University that
> had it standing in storage. A couple of the hard drives refused to run;
> fortunately the OS drive was still operational.
>
> I guess I should try and copy the drive data onto a spare disk in case it
> decides to fail, unless anyone knows where I can get some AOS/VS media from?

My brother died about 10 years ago from a heart attack. Unfortunately I
was living in the other end of the country and couldn't rescue his
material. He had hundreds of tapes and manuals, including his
documentation of source code for AOS/VS.

I've been kicking myself since.
Received on Mon Nov 29 2004 - 07:38:56 GMT

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