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Article #2165Re: What's a Corvus
From: Mike Albaugh
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 17:18
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 17:18
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From article <935@tlc.tlc.com>, by conrad@tlc.tlc.com (Conrad Dost):
> Lee Dunbar writes:
>
>> By brother-in-law recently bought a Corvus Machine.
>
>
> This is probably a CORVUS concept.
>
> The CORVUS concept was limited to 512kb of ram, had a 68000 cpu with
> no memory management hardware and a large monochrome monitor with bitmap
> graphics.
So far it sounds familiar.
> No cards can be plugged into it.
Uhh, the ones _I_ saw (circa 1982) had a couple Apple ][ slots.
(This is not a typo, and I have _no idea_ why!)
> To hook up a hard disk you have to use the CORVUS
> network which is slow.
Not to mention the disk themselves were flakey (the ones a friend
had to use on an Atari 800 system) and the backup-tapes (re-worked VCRs)
which could be read about 45% of the time :-(
> Try contacting CORVUS, there are in San Jose, CA and
> still breathing, I think.
As of my March 1988 phone book:
Corvus Systems Inc
140 Great Oaks Bl
(408) 281-4100
But offhand I'd rather spend my time messing with an old Vic-20 (which
comes right after wrestling rabid weasles on my list of fun things to do :-)
Mike
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