Santa, for Christmas I would like

From: Bruce Ray <bkr_at_WildHareComputers.com>
Date: Mon Nov 29 09:48:25 2004

G'day James -

I tried to contact you off-list yesterday concerning our Data General
preservation efforts and how we might be able to help you. Please let me
know if you did not receive my e.mail...


Bruce
bkr_at_WildHareComputers.com


...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "james" <james_at_jdfogg.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: Santa, for Christmas I would like


> 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.
>
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