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 […]
Another new project has landed today – a Data General Desktop. Having had a quick look inside it appears to be a DG10/SP model with Winchester, Floppy and Tape. I believe it is capable of running CP/M, RDOS or AOS. You can take a look at the inside of this machine and follow its restoration […]
When I embarked on this hobby I made a pact with myself to stick to the ‘proprietary‘ Data General CPU’s e.g. the native Nova/Eclipse and MV machines, however recently I stumbled across an Motorola 88110 based AViiON server and intrigue got the better of me when the owner confirmed that it had a full set of […]
One thing that has genuinely surprised me is how much ex Data General people want to help with physical items for a restoration and with how much information they remember about kit they worked on many years ago! VIP Alexandre made contact with me completely out of the blue and offered to send me the […]