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gheim@eng.auburn.edu (Greg Heim) writes:


>I have a CPU for a Q-Bus apparently manufactured by a company called
>Cadmus around '85.  The company is supposedly now called PCS (a german
>company).  I would like to get information on my board, but don't know
>how to contact these people.  Anyone know anything about them or even
>what PCS stands for?  I would guess they were in Colorado but not
>really sure.  If _you_ have documentation, that would be even better.
>This is what the board looks like...

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Almost correct. The German company was (and is called) PCS,
Periphere Computer Systeme. They are located in Munich.

PCS started out manufacturing data entry equipment. Later they built
one of the first Unix machines, based on the Q-Bus, with a Motorola
68010. That is the board you have. The machine was called Cadmus 9000.

The two 40-pin connectors are for the memory bus.

I have used this machine a long time ago. At a time it came
with 8" floppies. I'm not ure about the unix variant, though.
PCS did their own port. Could have been Version 7.

BTW, they had for a short time a US subsidiary named PCS Cadmus.
I'm not sure about it's fate, but I think it got sold to Apple.
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