Miscellaneous Operating Systems/Hardware

In the loft and found..


August 1978 UNIX Time Sharing System.
And


SUN Interactive UNIX System V/386, this is a small paper back book.
And


This was a course I went on years ago, I think 2000 or around. If I recall it was held in reading UK?

This one time, I was at the Red Dolly casino in Blackhawk Colorado and at the moment of departure my companion decided to visit the facilities, so I was standing in a row of slot machines waiting, and I never play slots but I stuffed the nearest one full of quarters and it hit for 500 dollars. Sort of like that!

Your Bell System Technical Journal of 1978 beats the oldest Unix publication I've got in my collection, the book Understanding Unix from 1983.

Did you ever use XENIX?
I once found a full set of install media (may still have it in the elusive 'other' loft) for XENIX mca. I ended up spending a year building different mca machines, starting with an Apricot Q[I] the IBM PS/2 Model 80 or [95] ? It was quite cool really, but not as cool as the AT&T UNIX I hade which had an 'interactive desktop' = Some(about 8 per screen) Squares you selected(by cursor and enter) on the desktop. Although AT&T never had predictive text.

Yes that was the interactive desktop we had on our 3B series Unix RTRs (Real Time Reliable, they were anything but!) when I first got hired by AT&T. We had the Xenix installation media but I don't remember anyone ever installing it. IIRC the installation media was a number of 5.25 floppies, which, being that it was 1985 is not that much of a surprise. Yeah, I know, I'm one of those old dudes...

uunix wrote: ... not as cool as the AT&T UNIX I hade which had an 'interactive desktop' = Some(about 8 per screen) Squares you selected(by cursor and enter) on the desktop.

Identify this, Batman (Alver, you're not allowed)

Boy was there screaming when this was repalced with winshit 3.1 ....

hamei wrote:

uunix wrote: ... not as cool as the AT&T UNIX I hade which had an 'interactive desktop' = Some(about 8 per screen) Squares you selected(by cursor and enter) on the desktop.

Identify this, Batman (Alver, you're not allowed)
Boy was there screaming when this was repalced with winshit 3.1 ....

My memory is hazy but it looks like the version of the AT&T package I used on a colour monitor instead of the green one I had.

I'm sure it was part of the bundle that came with AT&T (in a grey folder with blue text) UNIX.

[Edit] Actually I'm changing my mind, I don't know what it is, but it does look familiar[Edit]

hamei wrote:

uunix wrote: ... not as cool as the AT&T UNIX I hade which had an 'interactive desktop' = Some(about 8 per screen) Squares you selected(by cursor and enter) on the desktop.

Identify this, Batman (Alver, you're not allowed)
(image)
Boy was there screaming when this was replaced with winshit 3.1 ....

That is a circa 1985 HP Vectra running their DOS-based Personal Application Manager...

As far as the AT&T resemblance, I think you are thinking of FACES. It was a way to do "graphical" interfaces on character terminals. Would look really icky if you didn't have the correct termcap entry for the device on which you were running it.

ScutBoy wrote: As far as the AT&T resemblance, I think you are thinking of FACES. It was a way to do "graphical" interfaces on character terminals. Would look really icky if you didn't have the correct termcap entry for the device on which you were running it.

And one of the faces was a mail window, and what we used to do was if you walked by someone's machine and the mail window said "you have mail" we'd put the cursor behind it and type "from Whoopi Goldberg" or "from Molly Ringwald." It was a running gag that, as a bunch of Unix geeks, we all thought was hilariously funny. It was 1985 and there was no way to secure a logged in workstation except to logout if you were going to be away for a potty break or to get your 87th cup of coffee of the day...