Saturday, December 19, 2020

Dr. Scott Baker's NGEN Restoration

This site is intended to be about the Convergent IWS/AWS systems, not the NGEN systems.  However, that said, in the documenting and restoration of these systems, the NGEN systems will be impossible to ignore, for several reasons:

1) The AWS systems are clearly the predecessor of the NGEN systems in so many ways.

2) Resources for the NGEN are far more plentiful across the internet than on the AWS.

And the most shining example of reason #2 is the fantastic restoration documentation done earlier this year by Dr. Scott Baker.  He is very thorough in many ways, and is the first to demonstrate the restoration and operation of this system on YouTube.  Something I personally value very highly, because reading about it is great, I really want to SEE it.  So thank you, Dr. Baker, for doing the restoration, documenting it so well on your website pages AND on YouTube.  So this post/page will be dedicated to cataloging his resources in an easy-to-find single location for me, and hopefully for others!  Here we go...

Restoring a Convergent Technologies NGEN PC/Workstation (Burroughs B25 / Unisys)

Convergent Technologies CTOS/BTOS hints, tips, and notes

And he mentions Joe Altmaier


And let's see if we can find Kevin Boyce, who has really great and technically specific comments, which sounds as if he, also, was at Convergent Technologies back in the day.


And again, just so we can compare full boot up screens (warning, their video is very shaky)


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