From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jcrosenberg@earthlink.net (John Rosenberg) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:29:05 -0500 Subject: Anyone know what a Masscomp 5400 (54S-01) is? References: <200001211607.LAA12512@uni02du.unity.ncsu.edu> <14472.36082.530024.331321@cley.com> Message-ID: <00c501bf65e8$e55600a0$c469fea9@home> Yeah, that's the machine/software. Terrible software, if an honest attempt no doubt. Belongs in the Computer Museum. (It's such a pain to use that I would not bother, that is.) ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Bradshaw To: Cc: Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:44 AM Subject: Re: Anyone know what a Masscomp 5400 (54S-01) is? > * rdkeys wrote: > > On a surplus junket, today, I ran across a 2 dollar chassis that was > > listed as a Masscomp 5400 (54S-01) computer. It looked rather like > > a DECish based thing with dual height cards, like some sort of laboratory > > digital aquisition machine. On the long-shot that it is some sort of > > PDP-11ish thing, anyone have any recollection or pointers to any info > > on that kind of a Masscomp machine? > > Masscomps were 68k based machines, they had a whole bunch of stuff for > real-time and data-acquistion type stuff. They ran something called > RTU -- real-time Unix -- which was a weirdo sysv / BSD hybrid, not fun > to use. If the 5400 is the machine I remember it's a 68020 machine > but it may have a lot of cards for other stuff in. If it *is* the > machine we had it was deeply unreliable. Masscomp got bought by > someone else later on but I forget who, so they sometimes get badged > as some other make. > > I would run away, fast. > > --tim > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3321 bytes Desc: not available URL: