Dwight, thanks for sharing all of this this! Great memory, and fantastic ingenuity, to say the least!
Did it happen to be one of these older-style Convergent AWS machines? http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2017/03/convergent-technologies-workstation.html On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 6:16 AM, dwight <dkel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Years ago, we used one of the Convergent machines. I recall playing rats > on it. It had a green screen. It was a 8086 processor and had some Multibus > slots in it. > > I recall the SA8000 hard disk. It would fail after 20 minutes or so. We > sent is back to Shugart for warranty repair with a complete description of > how it needed to run for some time before it failed. > > They sent it back still broken. I when to Shugart with the drive and found > out that they never even looked at the return sheet they had me fill out. > They just replaced the drive belt tested it for 2 minutes and sent it back. > > I couldn't wait for them to not fix it again. I bought a replacement > transistor for the stepper drive and fixed it my self. > > We used them because of the bus slots on the back. I made a DC servo > controller to run an XY table. > > I had an early version of fig Forth running on it to debug my hardware. > > Dwight > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of AJ Palmgren > via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 14, 2018 6:05:55 PM > *To:* Todd Goodman > *Cc:* General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > *Subject:* Re: Sold on eBay: Convergent Technologies S/50 a.k.a. Unix PC, > AT&T 3B1 Unix Workstation > > Todd, thanks so much for sharing, and I'm thrilled to know that a member of > this community is where it's going. > > May I ask, what are your plans for archival of the included disks and > manuals, if any? > > I'd also be quite curious to see if there are any internal circuit > differences between that machine and a "regular AT&T 3b1. If you ever open > it up, I'd love to see/hear about that. > > I've put a fair amount of effort into preserving Convergent-branded OS and > programs, particularly from this era, solely out of personal interest. > Mostly for the MightyFrame, but my journey had to start with the AT&T UNIX > PC first, as that had the larger "still available" user group for learning > & support before I could revers-engineer how to get a MightyFrame to boot. > > Anyway, I would really love to see those software/manual sets be preserved > in a bitsavers.org / archive.org fashion, and if there is anything that I > might be able to do to assist in that effort, I'd love to volunteer. > > My site for preserving this area of Convergent software and equipment is at > http://MightyFrame.com > > Please let me know how I might help, in any way. > > Thanks so much! > -AJ > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net> wrote: > > > Hi AJ (and list), > > > > I got that one. > > > > Todd > > > > > > On 1/13/2018 10:02 PM, AJ Palmgren via cctalk wrote: > > > >> I'm just wondering if anybody here did (or knows who) bought this one. > >> > >> http://ebay.to/2DaRr13 > >> > >> Even though these were all manufactured by Convergent Technologies, this > >> one is actually BRANDED by Convergent, as their model S/50. > >> > >> And there's software included here. I tried to buy myself, but just > missed > >> it. > >> > >> I'd really like to connect with the buyer here, to see if we can do a > more > >> expansive documentation project on this machine, as well as an archival > of > >> the software that was included. > >> > >> As far as I know, this is the only Convergent S/50 I've ever seen that > has > >> survived, especially with all the CONVERGENT software and manuals (vs > the > >> AT&T ones)! > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> -AJ > >> http://MightyFrame.com > >> > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > AJ Palmgren > http://fb.me/SelmaTrainWreck > http://SelmaTrainWreck.blogspot.com > https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010931314283 > https://www.linkedin.com/in/aj-palmgren-4a085516/ > -- Thanks, AJ Palmgren http://fb.me/SelmaTrainWreck http://SelmaTrainWreck.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010931314283 https://www.linkedin.com/in/aj-palmgren-4a085516/