Santa, for Christmas I would like

[Bruce Ray]

G'day James -

I tried to contact you off-list yesterday concerning our Data General
preservation efforts and how we might be able to help you.  Please let me
know if you did not receive my e.mail...


Bruce
bkr at WildHareComputers.com


...preserving the Data General legacy:  www.NovasAreForever.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "james" <james at jdfogg.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: Santa, for Christmas I would like


> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 07:29, Dan Kolb wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 12:57:24PM -0500, james wrote:
> > > Something blue and white and it says Data General on the front. If it
> > > says MV it would be even nicer.
> > >
> > > Does anyone see these anymore? My brother was one of the developers of
> > > AOS/VS and I would really like to restore one.
> >
> > They do exist. I picked up an MV2500 about 4 years ago from a University
that
> > had it standing in storage. A couple of the hard drives refused to run;
> > fortunately the OS drive was still operational.
> >
> > I guess I should try and copy the drive data onto a spare disk in case
it
> > decides to fail, unless anyone knows where I can get some AOS/VS media
from?
>
> My brother died about 10 years ago from a heart attack. Unfortunately I
> was living in the other end of the country and couldn't rescue his
> material. He had hundreds of tapes and manuals, including his
> documentation of source code for AOS/VS.
>
> I've been kicking myself since.
>