Corvus (was Fortune Systems)

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Al Kossow wrote:

> 
> A Corvus _Unix_ box?  What was the model designation for this beast?  I
> have a Corvus Concept 68k with shelves full of manuals and lots of
> software.  None of it seems to be Unix-y.
> 
> --
> 
> Do you have the service manual for the Corvus Omnidrive?
> I've been trying to find that for the bitsavers archive for a
> while now.

I believe I do, but it's not accessible at the moment due to home 
destruction, err, construction.

> Corvus took the basic Concept hardware and added a SUN-style MMU
> to the memory board and tried to sell it with Unisoft Unix as a
> first try at a Unix computer. This machine didn't have a bitmapped
> display.
> 
> There were several iterations of the design (Frank McConnell may
> remember all of them). The two that probably sold the most were
> to Valid Systems as the SCALDstation, and to Unisys.

Cool. I'll keep my eyes open for these.