Old AT&T UNIX computer

[Leo J Mauler]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:37:23 -0600 "Brig C. McCoy" <mccoyb at lindahall.org>
writes:
> At 03:17 AM 3/9/2004, webgiant at juno.com wrote:
>  > I've been offered an original AT&T UNIX computer 
> > (about ten years old) along with the original UNIX OS 
> > installation floppies (about 100 5-1/4" floppies).
> > 32MB RAM, 300MB SCSI hard drive, and a 
> > backplane that goes on forever.
> >
> > Has anyone worked with a machine like this one?  
> > Can it accept operating systems other than System 
> > V UNIX (such as Linux)?  
>
> The software company where I used to work did a lot 
> of business with AT&T customers, so we ported our 
> spreadsheet and graphics programs to 3b1 and 
> 3b2 whenever we did an update.

3b2.  Thats a word he used in conjunction with the free AT&T UNIX
computer.

And if I can hack the root password, I would get access to the Pizza Hut
database still locked inside it.  :)

> If you're referring to the 3b1, you can get quite a bit of 
> information from 
> here: <http://unixpc.taronga.com/>.
> 
> If, as I suspect, you're referring to the 3b2, there's some 
> information 
> here: <http://www.unixwiz.net/3b2/3b2faq.html>.
> 
> As to other operating systems, because they frequently used AT&T's 
> own 
> cpus, porting an OS would be a major pain... although this 
> <http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1994/09/01/0004.html> 
> implies 
> there's an exception which might make it possible, but still not an 
> easy 
> thing. :)
> 
> ...brig

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