At long last, my walkthrough of the Data General Nova 50th Anniversary Celebration! Nova and Eclipse minicomputers in all shapes and forms, ages and colors. You should have been there...
The first computer I ever used. Nova 1200 running RDOS. Learned assembler on it back in the mid 1970s while I was in high school. Such a great machine.
@dosgos
Жыл бұрын
In the basement, we had a Dasher terminal but I think it was actually a workstation. That is long gone unfortunately.
@MicrobyteAlan
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, good to see the old stuff👍👍 . I worked for dec in Maynard. pdp’s VAXen and DECsystems.
@kellycash6348
5 жыл бұрын
The 5MB fixed/5MB removable drive is a model 6045. The DG/One with the Field Engineer's add on box is a code-named "Pharaoh," not "ferret." (understandable mistake, after so long) Great vid, wonderful to walk down memory lane!
@dosgos
Жыл бұрын
They should have run that in a motel in Westboro!
@rinus711
5 жыл бұрын
Beautifull!!! I love these DG computers, i own a commersial system cs30 with harddrive but i wish we had more for the computer museum Bonami in the Netherlands.
@mspysu79
5 жыл бұрын
Very cool event. The DG 1200 systems were used in the first CBS/Memorex CMX video editing systems.Later version went to LSI-11based machines for the reduced cost.
@ChipGuy
5 жыл бұрын
A friend once had a "workstation" with an Ecliplse CPU. It used a Terminal based on Z80 and had an external harddrive that was like 8" and had about 5-20 MByte (can't remember). Booting it up displayed like "Eclipse CPU found...." and "Starting MP/AOS". He said that the ecplipse CPU was roughly as fast as an 286 and since we had 386DX-40 back then it was out of date. But fun to mess around with. I always wanted to share this somewhere but no one could make any sense of what I was talking...
@uniservo
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, probably a microEclipse.
@ChipGuy
5 жыл бұрын
@@uniservo The boards were not very wide, maybe 8 inches. They were not very full with TTL but with lots of ASICs in DIL. RAM was of course the usual stuff for the time, can't remember, but nothing newer then 16kBit DRAM chips. Maybe 4kBit, Don't know. It was interesting though.
@uniservo
5 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like a microEclipse now!
@ChipGuy
5 жыл бұрын
@@uniservo From the size of the boards you showed the description "micro" would fit perfectly. There were only a few card in the desktop housing. AFAIK it came in 3 parts, Floppy, HDD and CPU. CPU connects to a terminal. This was a left over computer back in 1990 and used in the "Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources" for something geoscience related perhaps. Unfortunately I do not have a photo and I can not find anything familiar on google picture search.
@LJ45Chimera
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Thanks for the tour :)
@robertmarceau5368
2 жыл бұрын
1973 nova 1220 using assembly language & Algol.
@billb6283
2 ай бұрын
Nice video, @7:11 you say DG sold a lot of Cobol systems. Are you talking about DG's Cobol or are you talking about the Blis/Cobol OS?
@grappydingus
5 жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@DoogieLabs
5 жыл бұрын
I wished I would have known! Something happening in my neck of the woods and I missed it.
@rondodson4952
5 жыл бұрын
Me too. I live in the Denver area and knew nothing about this
@ramosel
2 жыл бұрын
No Data General Nova 3 Tape drive???
@zaprodk
5 жыл бұрын
I thought the background noise was crickets at your place, but the same noise inside this place? What gives?
@uniservo
5 жыл бұрын
Its all in your head.
@grhinson
5 жыл бұрын
That was neat. Was that a guy? I was not sure.
@qwaqwa1960
5 жыл бұрын
Cool. But...fer fuxake, splurge on a stabilized camera sans effin crickets! You owe it to your subjects.
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