Any spare Corvus Concept hardware out there?

[Steven Hirsch]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Josh Dersch wrote:

> I assume the answer to the subject line is "no," but I figured I'd ask just 
> in case one of you has a stack of this stuff lying around somewhere :). 
> Picked up a Corvus Concept -- just the main CPU unit, no monitor, no 
> keyboard, no drives.  It appears to work (it beeps when I turn it on!) but of 
> course lacking any other hardware it's a rather bulky doorstop.  I'd like to 
> get it running, it's a cool 68k-based machine with a bit-mapped display and 
> Apple II (!!) compatible expansion slots.  (Are there any other machines out 
> there that used the Apple II bus for expansion?  Aside from Apple II-family 
> machines and clones, of course...)
>
> I suppose given enough time I could build a compatible monitor, hack together 
> a keyboard interface, and get it booting over OmniNet but somehow having the 
> original hardware would be nice too...

I have a couple of Concepts here, but only a single monitor.  Will have to 
check on keyboards, but I don't recall having spares on those off the top 
of my head.

The Apple slots are unique as far as I know.  I've had the Disk II 
controller working on my unit in the past to read Apple diskettes.  There 
is a driver for it in the operating system distribution.

Steve


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