Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:16987 comp.arch:10321 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!unido!pcsbst!mike From: mike@pcsbst.UUCP (Mike Schroeder) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch Subject: Re: Cadmus/Cambridge-Digital QBus MC68010 Keywords: history antique hobby Message-ID: <861@pcsbst.UUCP> Date: 20 Jun 89 09:59:33 GMT References: <11093@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com> Reply-To: msc@cochise.pcs.com (Mike Schroeder) Organization: PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36, 8000 Muenchen; West-Germany Lines: 31 In article <11093@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com> stefan@yendor.UUCP (0000-Admin) writes: >In article egdorf@zaphod.lanl.gov (Skip Egdorf) writes: >> [ stuff on our old 68010 boards deleted ] >Cadmus is still around. Cadmus was only the name of the System, the >company that made these boxes is the Munich, W.Germany based Company >PCS (owned by Mannesmann). Your System is a VERY old one (Probably V.1). > that's right, we're still here !-). >I don't have a address right here, but if your interested, I probably >can come up with something. Send me email. > We've already contacted Skip and given him info by email. >In Germany these machines (and their predecessors) are (have been ?) >very popular in the universities. They also were known to be quite >buggy (might have changed). > well, we think that that *has* changed a lot. Actually, primarily the US-built systems were buggy, our's seemed to be stabler from the start (the design, drives etc. were different). And the machines are still popular at universities. Cheers -- Mike Schroeder PCS-Mail: msc DOMAIN: msc@cochise.pcs.de (EUR) or msc@cochise.pcs.com (US) BANG: ..unido!pcsbst!msc (EUR) or ..pyramid!pcsbst!msc (US)