Here's some #vintage #tech for you. This is the Data General Nova 2. These 16-bit #minicomputers were very popular in the 1970s. Coincidentally this #photo was taken in the office of my last job, the #basement of a #government #research facility. I didn't take the photo but the link to the post is below.

I spent just over two years here managing #Linux and #Solaris servers. My #cubicle was just around the corner from these #machines, below flickering fluorescent lights. Exactly what you'd expect from working in the basement of a government building.

While these systems haven't been in use for decades and should have been in a museum, they were still on the books and inventoried annually. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/drhpzk/data_general_nova_chilling_out_in_the_basement_of/

#computers #history #old #datageneral #nova #16bit

Will be scanning this soon...

#RetroComputing #RCSRI #DataGeneral

So when is the Space-Cadet keyboard gonna be recreated?

#AtomicKeyboard #DataGeneral #Dasher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64--Uk7_HHI

Computers used to look way cooler than they do now. This Data General Eclipse system with its terminal printer is a beauty (InfoAge museum, Wall NJ).

#retroComputing #DataGeneral

The parallel stories of Data General, the Eclipse MV/8000, and The Soul of a New Machine. I love the book but I wish it went into more technical detail.

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-soul-of-an-old-machine

#DataGeneral #retrocomputing