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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:24:35 +1030 (CST)

Re: Computer Museum

Hi,

> I have what I believe to be an Adelaide-designed Unix minicomputer that
> was manufactured in Melbourne and sold for work on oil rigs and scientific
> purposes. I got it from the lab at DSTO that is supposed to have designed
> the machine. So there is at least one machine that was not imported
> (besides the few x86 boards designed and manufactured here, the skinny
> little 286 manufactured in Camden park was years ahead of its time, what
> was it called now??)

Ahh, fond memories of Microbyte. The only PC system I've found that came
default with SCSI HDD, and external 5 1/4 SCSI Floppy. They were the first
PCs I had anythinhg to do with. They also did a 386 SX model. Problem was
they used non-standard BIOS, so didn't work properly with non propriotry
3.3 versions of DOS.

> Melbourne has a rare treasure, the only working first-generation computer
> in the world that someone discovered in a CSIRO warehouse 50 years after
> it was switched off. I don't know how that restoration project is going.
> Don't rule out some bizzare (imported) equivalents lurking in ghettos in
> Adelaide.

It may have been reported on the Science Show early in the year.

Ok I think.

cya

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