This Data General 6341-A Tape Transport has arrived from the USA along with an interconnecting cable to a MV DC series machine. This particular example is is prety good cosmetic condition save for a few rusty bolts. You can follow its restoration HERE.
This Data General Eclipse S/140 Chassis has arrived, it will enable me to test my S/140 and Nova 4 CPUs and related PCB’s in due course. This particular example is the shielded version and formed part of a GE CAT scanner many years ago.
Data General Field Engineering Breakout Box Another blast from the past – anyone remember FE days fault finding ASYNC connectivity?
Data General DTOS 8.1 on cassette. Here is a blast from the past – anyone remember loading DTOS from cassette tape? This is way before my time but I suspect this was the next stage on from Paper Tape before 9 Track Mag Tape became prevalent. VIP John (USA) has very kindly entrusted me with […]
This Data General Corporation Integrated Circuit is used on an Intelligent Lan Controller (ILC) board which came with my Eclipse MV/9800 the PCB also has an Intel 82586 IEEE 802.3 co-processor. Does anyone recognise the 48pin DIP labeled A01 and have any information on it and/or the PCB? The PCB part number is 005-039526 – […]
With lock-down in place here in the UK restoration work has stalled as systems are either at my place of work or in storage both of which I am unable to attend. So in order to stem the withdraw symptoms I have been continuing work on an extender for the Nova/Eclipse bus. I am about […]
A recent day trip to France has returned (for restoration and preservation) and following items: Data General MV2000DC Mk 1 Data General MV2000DC Mk 2 Data General Desktop Model 20 Along with: Circa 150 DG Floppy Disks Circa 150 DG Tapes for MV2000 inc Microcode for MV1000, MV1400 and MV2000 Various DG20 Spares (PCB’s, Disks, […]
More AViiON related media arrived this morning including: AViiON SCM Update Media Rev 17.00 Prom 4.4.0 (CD)AViiON ix86 In-Service Diagnostics Rev 8.0 (CD)AViiON m88k In-Service Diagnostics Rev 8.0 (CD)AViiON System Diagnostics Rev 12.40 (CD)DG/UX Release 4.20MU05 Documentation (CD)DG/UX OS with X for Intel Release 4.20MU05 (CD)DG/UX Maintenance Update 5.4R3.00.MU05 (Tape)DG/UX OS with X for 88k […]
Suprise delivery this week from the guy I acquired the AViiON 5500 from, he found a keyboard, some further documentation and two tapes one for DG/UX 5.4.2 and AViiON Diagnostics Rev 13 (12.60). You can take a look at the inside of this machine and follow its restoration by clicking here.
Having had another batch of Data General PCB’s delivered today I thought it best to start to take stock of what I have ‘in the shed’ just in case something is of interest to someone but more importantly to ensure I don’t acquire something I already have (my memory is not what it used to […]