PC Unix wanted

[Mike Loewen]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Mark Davidson wrote:

> Oh how nice it would be to have one of these again.  At one point, I
> had Interactive's 386/ix and SCO's Open Desktop... there was
> Microport's system, Esix (from Everex?), Venturcom's Venix, and others
> I'm sure I have forgotten.  I just remember the wall of manuals that
> came with these systems. :)

    I still have my ESIX 4.0.3A (yes, from Everex) installation from circa 
1992.  It's in a large cube, containing the manuals and software on 5.25" 
diskettes.  The manuals occasionally come in handy, for things like SVR4 
curses.

    My system was listed in Nixpub:

Updated
Last   Telephone #        Sys-name   Location           Baud        Hours
-----  ------------       --------   -----------        -------     -----
08/92  814-353-0566       cpumagic   Bellefonte      PA 12/24/96/14 24
   80386, ESIX 4.0.3a (SVR4);  Dual Standard (v.32/v.32bis/HST);
   The Centre Programmers Unit BBS, custom BBS software (Micro Magic);
   Files available: UNIX, GNU, X, ESIX, MSDOS tools and libraries;
   No fee but up/download ratios enforced.
   Contact: Mike Loewen at mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
                     or ...psuvax1!cpumagic!mloewen


    That phone number is, of course, no longer in service.  :-)  I had a 
UUCP dialup connection through the local University.


Mike Loewen				mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology	http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/