Date   : Tue, 20 Nov 1990 20:15:09 GMT
From   : bbn.com!nic!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!cos@apple.com (Ofer Inbar)
Subject: Early microcomputer networks

In article <7228@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600raft@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Michael Wise) writes:
>I remember using a Corvus Constellation setup in H.S. too.  I remember
>the servers came in 5, 10 and 20 meg versions (correct me if I'm wrong),
>and that was pretty impressive when at the time an Apple ][ floppy
>only held about 140K.  
>
>Remember how when you booted up the Apple the constellation would appear 
>on the screen in ascii "*"s...

We had an Apple ][ lab with a Corvus in elementary school; it was
installed when I was in sixth grade (1981).  The one thing I best
remember about it was how often it crashed, and how often we lost all
of our files.  I really hated the thing, I almost expected to lose my
files every time I went into the lab.  The year I graduated from 8th
grade they got a second Corvus (ack!).

I used to use the Apple monitor program to write short machine
language programs, and would save them on the Corvus using BSAVE.  The
computer teacher/sysadmin used to blame me for bringing down the
Corvus by writing binary files to it.

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