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From: jay@umd5.umd.edu (Jay Elvove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Wanted: Sperry PC-IT hotline into UNISYS
Message-ID: <2237@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 88 21:30:32 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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I am the proud owner of a Sperry PC-IT.  When I bought it, I considered my
investment as relatively state-of-the-art.  Now, however, developments in
the PC world are rapidly passing it by.  This is not to say that I am un-
happy with machine.  Quite the contrary!  It performs admirably and is
reasonably IBM compatible, as long as I use Sperry's DOS and not IBM's.

What I'm looking for is some sort of gateway into the UNISYS organization
so I can find out what plans, if any, they have in store for owner of their
IT line of micros.  For instance, what's the latest available ROM (and where
do you get a hold of it if you want to)?  What's the latest available DOS?
Is my machine capable (as is) of supporting a 3.5" 1.44 megabyte floppy drive?
If not, what, if anything, can I do to upgrade along this line?  Does
UNISYS have plans for true blue VGA support?  Etc.?

Is there anyone out there who know where information of this sort might
be obtained.  I know there are many UNISYS sights on the net; can you guys
give me any pointers?

One of the ironies of my quest for information is that we at Maryland have a
Sperry 1190/2 with on-site UNISYS customer engineers.  Lots a managers and
salesmen come and go, but none seems to have a clue as to where I can get
information about PC support.  I'm guessing that there are not enough Sperry
PCs out there that one could form a special interest group of some kind, so
I've resorted this news group as my best shot.  Thanks very much in advance:
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Jay Elvove       jay@umd5.umd.edu
c/o Systems, Computer Science Center, U. of MD.