I think it's time, if you're a collector of such things to grab up a UNIX PC before the clean working and complete units fetch prices routinely above $750, (but not yet). They're still "new vintage" but I predict these are going to become highly sought-after "tweener" type machines. This is the PC a lot of the famous hackers used in the late 80s Watching what this one does: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT-T-Unix-PC-Model-7300-/131741621748 -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
I agree. Early UNIX is potentially interesting to the public in the long run in light of the success of Linux. I've mentioned before in some threads that the MS connection to Unix in the Xenix product is historically interesting in my mind too. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:47 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I think it's time, if you're a collector of such things to grab up a UNIX PC before the clean working and complete units fetch prices routinely above $750, (but not yet). They're still "new vintage" but I predict these are going to become highly sought-after "tweener" type machines. This is the PC a lot of the famous hackers used in the late 80s
Watching what this one does: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT-T-Unix-PC-Model-7300-/131741621748
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On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I agree. Early UNIX is potentially interesting to the public in the long run in light of the success of Linux. I've mentioned before in some threads that the MS connection to Unix in the Xenix product is historically interesting in my mind too.
The TRS-80 Model 16B was the most popular Unix workstation by shipped units in 1984 running MS TRS-Xenix.
Ah- look at that. I thought the keyboard looked familiar. This ATT series was made by Convergent Technologies. I used the Convergent B-2x series at Burroughs just prior to the Unisys merger. " The *3B1* (also known as the *PC7300*, or *Unix <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix> PC*) was a Unix workstation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstation> computer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer> originally developed by Convergent Technologies <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_(Unisys)> (later acquired by Unisys <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys>), and marketed by AT&T <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T> in the mid- to late-1980s. Despite the name, the 3B1 had little in common with AT&T's other 3B-series computers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_Computers>. " On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Peter Cetinski <pete@pski.net> wrote:
On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I agree. Early UNIX is potentially interesting to the public in the long run in light of the success of Linux. I've mentioned before in some threads that the MS connection to Unix in the Xenix product is historically interesting in my mind too.
The TRS-80 Model 16B was the most popular Unix workstation by shipped units in 1984 running MS TRS-Xenix.
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