Old Unix system IDRIS

[Douglas Taylor]

At 07:38 PM 7/3/2009, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Douglas Taylor<dj.taylor4 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I tinker with old laboratory equipment and got a Bio-Rad 3200 computer the
> > other day that runs a spectrometer.
> >
> > It is a 68030 based system that runs a version of Whitesmiths 
> unix.  It came
> > with a bunch of floppys dated 1992.
> >
> > It runs just fine and I would like to get advice on how to preserve the
> > contents of the small SCSI disk inside the computer and the floppys.
> >
> > As an aside, I didn't know any passwords to get me into the system.  My
> > first try to log on as root using the password 'password' worked, I had to
> > laugh.
>
>Doug---
>
>That's awesome!  I have always wanted to play with Idris but it's
>almost impossible (as far as I know) to find systems that have it.
>
>Mark

I've only been on the system a few times, but the commands are 
definitely Unix.  I'm spoiled because of Linux, Idris did not have 
commands like more, and df is different.  The hardware is a single 
board computer with a co-processor board of some sort, probably 
floating point.  The box looks like an ancient 1st generation IBM PC, 
with a huge on/off switch on the side.