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    From lenoxcomputer@gmail.com@21:1/5 to ac...@mbox.queen.it on Wed Feb 8 20:58:13 2017
    On Sunday, August 29, 1999 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, ac...@mbox.queen.it wrote:
    Hi, rick

    rmk@toad.rmkhome.com wrote:

    Michael Engel <engel@math.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

    :For those of you who don't know the 1500 - it's a Unix system manufactured :by TI from 1986 to 1993 when HP took over the TI Unix systems division. :The 1500 came in many varieties - from single CPU 68030 systems (TI 1505) :to asymmetric multiprocessor systems (up to 5 CPUs - 68020/030/040 - in :one system) and also in a rare combination with a TI Explorer in one :enclosure. The system bus was TI's NuBus and the systems ran TI System V, :a SVR3.2 variant.

    I was supporting a 1505 back in 1992-1995. Not a bad system at all
    except that it was picky about terminal - lousy termcap. It was a
    fairly vanilla SVR3.2 although not as vanilla as Interactive UNIX.

    If I can dredge up more anecdotes about this machine from my
    overloaded brain I will email you.
    --
    Rick Kelly rmk@toad.rmkhome.com

    Is there anyone collecting or preserving the older business system that
    TI succesfully marketed? I'm talking about the TI990 family
    Anyone hve some links to point me at?

    THANKS

    Riccardo

    Hey, Interested in TI/990 Info? I worked in Unit Test in Austin, Texas at TI's Data Systems Division starting in 1980. I built my business designing 3rd party hardware to go in the TI 990/10 990/10A 990/12 990/12A. While at TI I worked on all of
    these machines. I also worked on the business system 1300 and business system 1500 when they first hit the floor. Let me know if you want to know more or see pictures. Also worked on the Explorer Project.

    Thanks,
    Marty Green
    lenoxcomputer@frontiernet.net

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  • From lenoxcomputer@gmail.com@21:1/5 to ac...@mbox.queen.it on Wed Feb 8 21:02:09 2017
    On Sunday, August 29, 1999 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, ac...@mbox.queen.it wrote:
    Hi, rick

    rmk@toad.rmkhome.com wrote:

    Michael Engel <engel@math.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

    :For those of you who don't know the 1500 - it's a Unix system manufactured :by TI from 1986 to 1993 when HP took over the TI Unix systems division. :The 1500 came in many varieties - from single CPU 68030 systems (TI 1505) :to asymmetric multiprocessor systems (up to 5 CPUs - 68020/030/040 - in :one system) and also in a rare combination with a TI Explorer in one :enclosure. The system bus was TI's NuBus and the systems ran TI System V, :a SVR3.2 variant.

    I was supporting a 1505 back in 1992-1995. Not a bad system at all
    except that it was picky about terminal - lousy termcap. It was a
    fairly vanilla SVR3.2 although not as vanilla as Interactive UNIX.

    If I can dredge up more anecdotes about this machine from my
    overloaded brain I will email you.
    --
    Rick Kelly rmk@toad.rmkhome.com

    Is there anyone collecting or preserving the older business system that
    TI succesfully marketed? I'm talking about the TI990 family
    Anyone hve some links to point me at?

    THANKS

    Riccardo

    Contact Marty Green at lenoxcomputer@frontiernet.net

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  • From Al Kossow@21:1/5 to lenoxcomputer@gmail.com on Thu Feb 9 08:47:05 2017
    On 2/8/17 8:58 PM, lenoxcomputer@gmail.com wrote:

    Hey, Interested in TI/990 Info? I worked in Unit Test in Austin, Texas at TI's Data Systems Division starting in 1980. I built my business designing 3rd party hardware to go in the TI 990/10 990/10A 990/12 990/12A. While at TI I worked on all of
    these machines. I also worked on the business system 1300 and business system 1500 when they first hit the floor. Let me know if you want to know more or see pictures. Also worked on the Explorer Project.



    Did you save any documentation on the NuMachine/Explorer or 1500, in particular, schematics.

    I have a bunch of 990's, Explorers, and one 1500 in my collection. Depot-level docs are pretty much impossible
    to find for the later machines.

    What I have found is under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ti

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