[Coco] OS-9 History

[Sean]

Dang, I had a Pagewriter back in the day, and did not know it ran OS-9
until today!


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > I thought I read that one of the early space shuttle missions was running
> > OS9 ????
>
> An OS-9/68K system definitely flew as an experiment on a Shuttle mission.
> I had one of the guys who worked on it in a training class once, and we
> used a NASA logo on one of our presentations as an example of places OS-9
> had been used. But the Shuttle itself did not, as far as I know.
>
> Famous OS-9 uses:
>
> Star Trek the Experience in Las Vegas has some OS-9000.
>
> The Treasure Island pirate ship thing in Las Vegas used some OS-9 Gespac
> thing at some point.
>
> Caltrans (California Transportation) probably still has 68000 based OS-9
> machines in old 2070 traffic controller boxes.
>
> Motorola Pagewriter, one of the first two-way text pagers, was 68000 OS-9.
>
> Uniden Axis was an e-mail telephone that ran OS-9 (consumer product).
>
> Of course, Phillips CD-i players.
>
> I used to have a list of these things to mention, but I have forgotten
> most of that.
>
>         -- A
>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>