[H-GEN] death of a unisys micro alpha

[Aaron Howell]

I have a Unisys Micro Alpha here which is about to make its final demize in the form of
a couple more scsi drives for my desktop (380mb hd plus a 150mb tape bacup)
I wanted to make sure (if anyone knows that is) that it isnt actually worth saving as is.
Its not too late, I haven't broken anything irrevocably.
The machine appears to be a 386 motherboard, with a couple of adaptor cards which I suppose house the mainframe circuitry.
It boots off an mfm (or rll or esdi?) drive, loads os/2, then supposedly (if one could get the scsi drive to work)
loads the software which controls the mainframe stuff.
I don't know what that's supposed to be, whether its unix or something else entirely.
It has a whole bunch of what look like serial ports on the back (public access terminals perhaps?)
No network card so I'm assuming no tcp/ip.
Hints anyone?
It dies for parts at the end of the week if I don't hear a good reason why it shouldn't.
Regards
Aaron

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