SwissArmyTin
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About a year or so ago I rescued a sizable stash of MAI Basic Four equipment - a Dual Universe mainframe/mini/tower something, 3 terminals I assume are ASCII (2 model 4314s and one model 4312), a front-loading 9 track tape drive, two enormous printers, and several manuals for the Business Basic operating system and this setup's flavor of UNIX (something called BOSS). However, I have no system manuals, or any sort of hardware manuals or reference for anything I have. In fact, I can barely even find proof online half of this stuff even exists. I have empty binders where some of the hardware manuals would've been, unfortunately the pages themselves were tossed at some point in the past 30 years.
From what I can gather, MAI tailored to business/financial industries, and I know a lot of equipment from those sectors didn't survive for security reasons. I can find plenty of manuals and documents for MAI's equipment from the late 70s to early 80s on places like archive.org and Bitsavers, however the oldest piece I have is the 4312 terminal dated from '86, everything else is late 80s.
Really I'd just like to see anything related to these machines. Manuals, print ads, brochures, literally anything from this era. There's gotta be someone out there also into this super niche stuff.
From what I can gather, MAI tailored to business/financial industries, and I know a lot of equipment from those sectors didn't survive for security reasons. I can find plenty of manuals and documents for MAI's equipment from the late 70s to early 80s on places like archive.org and Bitsavers, however the oldest piece I have is the 4312 terminal dated from '86, everything else is late 80s.
Really I'd just like to see anything related to these machines. Manuals, print ads, brochures, literally anything from this era. There's gotta be someone out there also into this super niche stuff.