Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.misc:1102 comp.os.cpm:4387 alt.folklore.computers:7172 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!dino!news.iastate.edu!exnet.iastate.edu!i1neal From: i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- ELT Computer Applications Group) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc,comp.os.cpm,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Early microcomputer networks Message-ID: <1990Nov18.054011.16521@news.iastate.edu> Date: 18 Nov 90 05:40:11 GMT References: <1990Nov12.232142.16577@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1990Nov13.210141.28709@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1990Nov14.175037.1497@eng.umd.edu> <7228@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: i1neal@iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- ELT Computer Applications Group) Organization: Iowa State University Extension Lines: 17 In article <7228@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600raft@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Michael Wise) writes: >In article <1990Nov14.175037.1497@eng.umd.edu> hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dagwood splits the Atom) writes: > >>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. > >I remember using a Corvus Constellation setup in H.S. too. I remember >the servers came in 5, 10 and 20 meg versions (correct me if I'm wrong), My office mate is a Corvus mechanic on the side - the latest version of the roms for those things support 330 meg mfm drives(!) and the largest hes ever used was a 110 meg disk