Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.misc:1093 comp.os.cpm:4363 alt.folklore.computers:7052 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!hsu From: hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dagwood splits the Atom) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.os.cpm,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Early microcomputer networks Message-ID: <1990Nov14.175037.1497@eng.umd.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 17:50:37 GMT References: <1990Nov12.232142.16577@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1990Nov13.210141.28709@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 23 In article <1990Nov13.210141.28709@en.ecn.purdue.edu> milton@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Milton D Miller) writes: >In article jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes: >>I remember people having Corvus disk systems on their Apple II's >>around 1980. >Well, let's see what I can rember. We had one of these installed in >high school... The lab was installed in 1982; I graduated in 1986. ... >What I rember was 3 stackable boxes about 9x15" of various heights, >one was the network interface (2-3" high), one was the VCR backup >attachment (one board in a 1" case), and the disk itself Sounds like a Corvus Constellation setup with the Corvus Mirror VCR backup device. Who says videotape data storage is a new idea :-) Someone actually bought a Mirror? Wow. -dave -- David Hsu Engineering Computer Facility (301) 405 3689 hsu@eng.umd.edu The Maryversity of Uniland, College Park, MD 20742 SAM: "Uh, thanks." TUTTLE: "Listen, kid, we're all in it together."