Fortune Systems (Brands you never hear much about)

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I have a couple of Fortune systems and some doc but
they're incomplete so I have done much with them yet. 
If I ever find enough stuff to get them working I
will.  We looked at Fortune years ago when my dad's
company was looking for a multi-user system for the
office.  Kind of liked it at the time but the picked
an Altos instead as the company seemed a bit more
stable.

--- Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

>  >But I've never heard of anyone collecting the
> boxes.  Any reason
>  >for this?
> 
> Probably the same reason no one saved Onyx or old
> Corvus 68k Unix boxes.
> 
> The Fortune was somewhat more interesting in that
> they made an attempt
> to package a 68K unix box as a biz desktop, but this
> all happened at the
> time that AT-class machines took over the world.
> 
> A friend of mine who came from Bell Labs had one,
> and wasn't very happy
> with what they had done with it if you actually
> wanted to use it for
> programming.
> 
> There are a few people who still have systems made
> the SUN Multibus CPUs
> (Callan, Forward Tech, et al)
> 
> I picked up some of the Fortune boards as they
> showed up in the mid 80's
> in surplus places, but got rid of them since they
> really weren't that
> interesting, and were pretty much impossible to get
> docs on.
> 
> 
> 


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