The image below shows a montage of all of the ID tags on every Convergent Technologies AWS Turbo machine that we have preserved in our collection, and are actively restoring
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The AWS 200s are all models with floppy and Winchester drives mounted in the lectern.
The AWS 210s with the AWS 217 option are "slave" machines with only a CPU board, but no floppy, no hard drive, and now HDD controller board.
But what do these product numbers and options mean?
Page 4 of this the CONVERGENT™ FAMILY OF AWS™ TURBO WORKSTATIONS, we see a chart that could answer this question, although we don't see any AWS 217s, 266s or 267s.
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This chart shows only Shows only ending in '5'.
AWS-215
AWS-225
AWS-235
AWS-245
AWS-255
AWS-265
So, we'll just have to guess at the AWS-217, AWS-266 and AWS-267 models we see above. Thankfully, we have some idea what they were quipped with, and they do match the nearest numerically listed model closely.
We'll list more here soon on exactly how each above model was equipped when we received them
And here's a model number that we were NOT able to save, and may or may not still exist. This one is a big unknown!
The seller never replied to my questions. We weren't too motivated to bid such a high price and have to drive nearly 2000 miles for pickup, when the seller was so non-responsive, and had no feedback whatsoever. Was he/she even for real? But they took a picture of a real machine, that's not in our collection so THAT must have been for real...
Maybe forever a mystery. Do YOU know the whereabouts of this machine? Or the story behind it? We'd love to hear about it! Drop us an email here.
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