[rescue] VAX Pull movie

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 01:22 AM, Eric Webb wrote:
>> more 8" floppies, plus a Corvus Constellation hard drive.  The Corvus 
>> was
>> so big (a whopping 5 MB) and expensive (over US$5,000) that it was
>> networked to two other Mod IIs, using a lot of ribbon cable.
>
> Hey, I remember working with one of the Corvus drives (prolly 
> mid-80's?) that
> worked on a two-wire network with a bunch of Apple-II clients.  I 
> think there
> were interface cards for other platforms, too, though.
>
> Anyone remember much about these things?

   I had a Corvus "network drive" (not sure what it was actually 
called)...hard drive in a desktop case with an interface to that 
network.  It was neat.  I tore it down many years ago to salvage the 
[linear, but nice anyway] power supply out of it.

         -Dave

--
Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
St. Petersburg, FL       reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke