Sold on eBay: Convergent Technologies S/50 a.k.a. Unix PC, AT&T 3B1 Unix Workstation

Alan Perry aperry at snowmoose.com
Wed Jan 17 19:49:09 CST 2018


As I mentioned elsewhere, I worked on software for them at Burroughs 
('86-'89). I picked up a bunch of B25 stuff in '03, but I could never 
find any software for them. In retrospect, I wish that I has stashed 
away B25 (and B1000 (I was one of the last people in the office 
supporting software on the B1000)) stuff, rather than return everything, 
when I left the company.

alan

On 1/17/18 11:22 AM, Dominique Carlier via cctech wrote:
> You're right, the machine I owned is the one I see from your link. The 
> workstation you mentioned is in the same box but with a monitor and 
> the location of the clips and led slightly different.
> But I was not far ;-) I don't remember what kind of hardware was 
> exactly in this machine. Shame on me, I got rid of it, it was the 
> pre-internet era, I had no hope to repair and reinstall this machine, 
> it would be different today: - /
>
>
> On 17/01/2018 20:02, Alan Perry via cctech wrote:
>> Are you sure?
>>
>> The B20, B21, B22 looked like this - 
>> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102662660 - and 
>> nothing like the 3B1 or the S/50. The B25 and subsequent models 
>> (which are often referred to as B20s) are modular systems that are 
>> box-shaped and got wider as "slices" were added. The B20s were 
>> x86-based and the 3B1 (and presumably the CT S/50) was 68k-based.
>>
>> alan
>>
>>
>> On 1/17/18 2:41 AM, Dominique Carlier via cctech wrote:
>>> It's interesting, I had exactly the same machine a long time ago, 
>>> but with a different label. It was a Burroughs B20 distributed by 
>>> Unisys
>>>
>>> Dominique
>>>
>>> On 17/01/2018 06:45, AJ Palmgren via cctalk wrote:
>>>> Did it happen to be one of these older-style Convergent AWS machines?
>>>>
>>>> http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2017/03/convergent-technologies-workstation.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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