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From: tjones%sunset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Ray Jones)
Subject: Old (Real) Data General Nova 3
Date: 29 May 90 02:52:53 MDT
Message-ID: <1990May29.025253.15707@hellgate.utah.edu>
Summary: Old computer, looking for help starting
Keywords: Computer, Old, Ugly, Big, Grotesque, Broken
Reply-To: tjones%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@cs.utah.edu (Ray Jones)
Organization: University of Utah, Computer Science Dept.
References: <451@isgtec.UUCP> <1990May25.085617.22242@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Distribution: usa

    Some friends and I recently acquired a DG Nova 3, with 10 Meg Disk Platters
and ~32k onboard ram.  Don't ask me why we did this.  Probably because we're 
stupid.  Anyway, the problem is, we can't get it started.
    Suposedly the previous owners spent about a year getting it going and 
finally got it to run a copy of Word Perfect they grabbed somewhere, but we
can't do a thing with it.  It is a front panel switch bootstrap loader, 
something we've all been lucky enough not to come in contact with until now.
    We'd like to get the beast (Actually we've named it BERTHA.) started, but
nothing we've tried has worked.

    (Please no RTFM responses.  We tried that.  Several times.  All the way
through.)

tjones@hell.utah.edu

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