Terminal/Server System ICON an kanadischen Schulen (war: Es)

Hallo, hat jemand Erfahrungen mit dem Terminal/Server System ICON an kanadischen Schulen, bzw. weiß etwas dazu, und ob es retrocomputing Initiativen gibt, einen LexICON Server wiederzubeleben und zur Verfügung zu stellen? Ansonsten würde mich interessieren, ob die Terminals auch DOS verarbeiten würden, also mehr oder weniger, ob sie ein BIOS haben. Sie haben wohl eine 80186 Intel CPU oder kompatibel.

Wichtig wäre dann auch die Grafikverbindung und ISA Slots, oder was statt dessen zur Erweiterung verwendet wird. Ich habe eine pw² 500 386SX. Das ist ein PC.

Ich würde mich für den ICON III * interessieren und die Serversoftware.

Eigentlich hatte ich einen guten Titel. Muss das schlussendlich am Handy verdaddelt haben.

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/lexicon-computer/

Okay, es ging um ein eBay Angebot. Es scheint so zu sein, dass es sich gar nicht um einen ICON III* handelt, sondern mit FCCID DZ T3149 um den P-3149 aka pw² 300/10.

Der hat auch keinen 80186 Intel, sondern einen 80286 Intel verbaut, ISA Slots und ist ein normaler PC.

Ich hatte eine gelöschte Kleinanzeige des PCs entdeckt mit exakt der gleichen FCC ID. Dadurch würde dann klar, dass es sich um den pw² 300/10 handelt. Wurde aber vom Verkäufer als ICON III* angeboten.

Nur dazu könnte ich keine Abbildung finden. Möglicherweise sieht der ICON dann doch dem Burroughs ICON II ähnlich, wie abgebildet.

Der ICON wäre nur interessant gewesen, falls es ein Open source project oder eine emulation des lexICON und Adapter von dem proprietären Netzwerk Anschluss auf TCP/IP Ethernet gäbe. Gibt es so etwas? Interessant ist dieses Schulsystem nämlich schon.

Jedenfalls passt der pw² 300 10 in meine "Sammlung".

Hier noch ein paar Infos zu den unisys personal workstations.

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Unisys to introduce its personal workstation² at comdex

A 386-based workstation running at 20 MHz with zero wait states is one of four workstations Unisys Corp. will announce November 2 at Comdex, the firm said.

Unisys new Personal Workstation family ranges from diskless 286 and 386 configurations for network use to a top- of-the-line 386 with a 117MB hard disk and an optional 1.44MB, 3-inch drive.

Unisys also will announce immediate availability of its first IEEE 802.5 token ring LAN, a 4-megabit-per-second en hancement to Usernet, which can link up to 260 devices in one star-shaped ring. Previously, Usernet used asynchronous or twisted-pair transport only and was limited to 56 devices per LAN.

Also to be announced is a 15-inch black-on-white monochrome monitor with a virtually flat screen for desktop publishing applications. The Ergonomic Display and its Ergonomic Controller together cost $1,075. Next year a VGA monitor will be introduced, said Trever T. Dodd, program manager for PCs.

Unisys already offers a 386-based sys- tem running BTOS, the firm's multiuser, multitasking OS, which is "at least a year" ahead of OS/2, Dodd said. The PW line is designed to run industry standard operating systems, including MS-DOS 3.3, which comes standard, and optional operating systems, including Xenix, available on release, and OS/2, available in second quarter, 1988. The 286 workstations will include the

Microsoft Windows 2.0 control program, and the 386 systems will come with Microsoft Windows 386. The Sperry PC/Micro IT line will continue to come with DOS 3.2 for now, Dodd said.

The new workstations are the PW Series 800/20, with a 386 running at 20 MHz with zero wait states. Built by Multitech of Taiwan, it has CGA and MDA graphics, 1 megabyte of RAM, a 60-megabyte tape backup system, and one 32-bit, four 16-bit, and two 8-bit slots. Configurations include a $5,280 single-floppy disk model, a $6,680 40- megabyte hard disk model, and a $8,085 69-megabyte hard disk model. A $5,255

117-megabyte hard disk kit is available. The PW Series 800/16, with a 386 running at 16 MHz with zero wait states, is otherwise identical to the 20-MHz model. The single-floppy version is $4,780, the 40MB version is $6,180, and the 69MB model is $7,585,

All hard disks in the Series 800 have a 30-millisecond access time; 5%- and 3%- inch floppy drives are also available.

The PW Series 500/12, with a 286 running at 12 MHz with one wait state, can switch between 8 and 6 MHz. Built for Unisys by Japan-based Mitsubishi and assembled in California, it has CGA and MDA graphics, 640K of RAM, and three 16-bit and two 8-bit slots. A

diskless version will be $2,495, a version with one floppy and a 40- ms, 20MB hard disk will be $3,390, and a 30-ms, 40MB hard disk model will be $4,585.

The PW Series 300/10, with a 286 running at 10 MHz, includes 640K of RAM and two 8-bit slots. Built for Unisys by Goldstar of Korea, it includes EGA graphics standard. It will be available in the first quarter of 1988 in three versions: a $1,305 diskless version, a $1,545 floppy drive version, and a $2,380 version with an added 40- ms, 20-megabyte hard disk.

Unisys went with multiple ven- dors after a competitive bid pro- cess, Dodd noted. A rigorous test- ing process at its research and development center in Salt Lake City is ensuring that the computers run the same software, even though the 300 uses a Phoenix BIOS, the 500 uses Mitsubishi's BIOS, and the 800 uses a modified BIOS from Award Software.

Options for the Series 800 will include a $3,000 4-megabyte RAM expansion board and an additional 4-megabyte daughter board for $2,500. Intel 387 coprocessors will be available for $1,050. "It looks like quite a competitive

Fall Comdex next week will feature Unisys ne Personal Workstation family.

offering with more performance in th Series 300 than what IBM offers," sai Suzanne Purnell, an industry analy with Dataquest of San Jose, California "The Series 800 is on the leading edge< 386 technology."

(InfoWorld 26 Oct 1987)

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