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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Cadmus or PCS info needed!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.060251.11412@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 06:02:51 GMT
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- gheim@eng.auburn.edu (Greg Heim) writes:
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- >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...
-
- (Picture deleted)
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- Almost correct. The German company was (and is called) PCS,
- Periphere Computer Systeme. They are located in Munich.
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- 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.
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- The two 40-pin connectors are for the memory bus.
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- 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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