[HECnet] Re: 3B1s and "old school" UNIX, was Re: [HECnet] US Seller with some interesting stuff

[Sampsa Laine]

On 27 Nov 2012, at 07:15, Gregg Levine wrote:

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 11/26/2012 02:00 PM, sampsa at mac.com wrote:
He says he's selling an AT&T Unix PC 3B1, only found a monitor and a motherboard that's untested.

It'd be a pretty nifty addition to a collection, I'd love a really old school Unix machine.

If memory serves, the UNIX dialect that they run is SysV release 2.
It's a fairly complete SysV implementation, with a nice, low-overhead
GUI called "UA", for User Agent.   There is no networking, but there's a
(rare) Ethernet card for the machine, which was shipped with an IP stack
written by Wollongong.   The IP stack ran in short spurts between
crashes, but you could use it to get stuff on or off the machine.

Well there's always Kermit and UUCP - and one could always plug a few serial ports into a DECserver or something to get "networking" into the device :)

Sampsa