Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:17051 comp.arch:10396 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!ico!ism780c!haddock!kencr From: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch Subject: Re: Cadmus/Cambridge-Digital QBus MC68010 Keywords: history antique hobby Message-ID: <13861@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 27 Jun 89 15:58:23 GMT References: <11093@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com> <861@pcsbst.UUCP> Reply-To: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge MA Lines: 38 >In article <11093@yendor.phx.mcd.mot.com> stefan@yendor.UUCP (0000-Admin) writes: >>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). In article <861@pcsbst.UUCP> msc@cochise.pcs.com (Mike Schroeder) says: >that's right, we're still here !-). >>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. >Mike Schroeder PCS-Mail: msc (see what happens when you don't read for a while; you lose track of the stuff you might be interested in) When I'm between contracts, I work for a company in Burlington, MA that (this is what the owners told me) services a large part of the US market. In fact, I own a 9000. I like mine, and it has the best parts of both unixes....for the most part. Of course, working for a company that fixes them means you get a lot of spare goodies...mine has 3M in it and 280 MB online! They are: Data National 128 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803 (617) 272-0770 -- Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, Interactive Systems, Cambridge MA StarTrekV 3'rd favorite line: "Oh yeah?! Beam THIS up, pal!!" - D. Letterman E-Mail, (which tends not to be delivered :-( ) Phone (617) 661 7474 x238 {encore, harvard, spdcc, think}!ima!haddock!kencr kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com