Hello, been a while since ive written to the list. I met someone the other day that used to work for modcomp. He gave me a tour, he still has working modcomp computers in his home. He was clearing out a bunch of stuff, he gave me a bunch of terminals and dos era computers. Among the computers is a modcomp branded motorolla 68k based machine. I can not find any information on the system. From what i understand, the system was to be tied in to the modcomp minicomputer bus and used as a modern alternative for large antiquated disks and tapes. There is a large pair of interface connectors on the back, never seen anything like them before.
I do not have a modomp computer yet, but this 68k machine looks quite interesting. It is essentially a vme bus backpane in a desktop computer case. A hard disk and tape drive are installed. Looks to have floating point and network card as well. I managed to make the proper serial cable, and was able to get to a debugger and monitor at power on. I was under the understanding that this machine could run a port of unix to 68k, called unix/68. I am uncertain of any details on the machine, i was hoping someone here could me in the right direction of getting the machine to boot. The drive still spins up, it may even have an install of unix on it, i might have to type in some kind of boot parameter or jump to some address from the monitor to kick off the boot process. Any advice on how to proceed is appreciated. Within the following month i am supposed to get a mountain of modcomp documentation, ill have to check back here and see if its duplicate or original information and scan it all. He was also going to give me a copy of a modcomp emulator he wrote, I have found no such thing elsewhere on line, so perhaps it would be of use to someone else here too once i get it. --Devin D.
