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From: albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: What's a Corvus
Message-ID: <944@dms.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 17:18:41 GMT
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Organization: Atari Games Inc., Milpitas, CA
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From article <935@tlc.tlc.com>, by conrad@tlc.tlc.com (Conrad Dost):
> Lee Dunbar writes:
> 
>> By brother-in-law recently bought a Corvus Machine.  
> 
> 
> This is probably a CORVUS concept.  
> 
> The CORVUS concept was limited to 512kb of ram, had a 68000 cpu with
> no memory management hardware and a large monochrome monitor with bitmap
> graphics.

	So far it sounds familiar.

>  No cards can be plugged into it.

	Uhh, the ones _I_ saw (circa 1982) had a couple Apple ][ slots.
(This is not a typo, and I have _no idea_ why!)

>  To hook up a hard disk you have to use the CORVUS 
> network which is slow.

	Not to mention the disk themselves were flakey (the ones a friend
had to use on an Atari 800 system) and the backup-tapes (re-worked VCRs)
which could be read about 45% of the time :-(

>  Try contacting CORVUS, there are in San Jose, CA and
> still breathing, I think.

	As of my March 1988 phone book:

	Corvus Systems Inc
	140 Great Oaks Bl
	(408) 281-4100

But offhand I'd rather spend my time messing with an old Vic-20 (which
comes right after wrestling rabid weasles on my list of fun things to do :-)

					Mike

| Mike Albaugh (albaugh@dms.UUCP || {...decwrl!pyramid!}weitek!dms!albaugh)
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