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For those who get "weak at the knees" at the sight of real lights, here are some reminders of when minicomputers ruled.

...when a real machine meant you could heat the entire office during winter;

...when the slogan "MVs are forever" wasn't even thought of.

 

The start of it all...

 

1968:  A man, a machine and a pose.

The official announcement: We're in business!

 

1970:  A group of men, some new machines and a pose.

[Click on the thumbnail pictures below to view the corresponding full-size pictures]

The first sales brochure's cover:   best_01.jpg (207760 bytes)
The first Nova machine
(standard rack mount and
fancy marketing package)

  Nova_01.jpg (82000 bytes)  Nova_02.jpg (119297 bytes) Nova_03.jpg (9591 bytes)

- that received good press - Novam_01.jpg (219711 bytes)  Novam_02.jpg (234057 bytes)  Novam_03.jpg (367275 bytes)
... and became two machines: NovaSuper_01.jpg (72171 bytes)
The fastest machine for a decade -
the SuperNova
Super_01.jpg (158901 bytes)
They begat the next two...
Nova 1200 and Nova 800
Nova1200_01.jpg (194118 bytes) Nova800_01.jpg (149721 bytes) Nova1200_02.jpg (198083 bytes)
The first "mapped" Nova:
Nova 840
Nova840_02.jpg (32692 bytes)
Nova 2 Nova2_02.jpg (13717 bytes)  Nova2_01.jpg (18534 bytes)
The ever-lovely Nova 3

nova3_01.jpg (73163 bytes)  Nova3_02.jpg (216970 bytes)

The last of the "straight" Nova line - the Nova 4
 The 16-bit  Eclipse systems
spawned from the Nova
Eclipse_02.jpg (51668 bytes) Eclipse_01.jpg (25307 bytes)
DG's "consumer" product: microNova-powered Enterprise
Desktop Generation
(microEclipse chipset)
..\_small\DG_30.jpg (25506 bytes)
DG/500:
The final 16-bit Nova descendent
uses the microEclipse chipset
DG500_01.jpg (36170 bytes)

 

The DG Lineage:

First the 16-bit Nova,
then the 16-bit Eclipse,

finally the 32-bit MV.

but that's another story...

[to be continued]

 

MV_logo.jpg (84570 bytes)
 

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