Re: Adventures with my Corvus Omninet network

[Peter Christian <christp@attglobal.net>]

Frank,

Corvus was my first network system I installed, using Apple ///s, ][s and a Mac.
It worked well too but was a beast for me to install since some of the code was
still considered "beta". amazingly, I actually went on to pursue a career as a
technical support person!

I dont remember much about the corvus and at this time i do not have any of the
install sofware. I do have something called the coruvs mirror kicking around and
possibly a corvus drive.

Thank You.
Pete.



Frank Townsend wrote:

> Well, I now have my Apple II+ and Apple ][e both as clients on my Omninet
> network.  Nothing needed to make connections but an insulation stripper and
> a soldering iron.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have the Corvus Constellation network software, so
> both machines simply boot to s6,d1,v1 of the Corvus 20MB drive.
>
> The drive is divided into two 10MB logical drives, each of which contains 63
> DOS volumes.
>
> The supplied utilities allow only text files to be copied between Corvus
> volumes.  Fortunately, my Wildcard2 and its utility disk allows copies
> between volumes on the hard drive.
>
> At 1 Mbps network rates, the computers seem to boot to the Corvus drive only
> a little faster than a floppy.  It *is*, however, very strange and
> gratifying (to me, anyway) to watch the Apple II+ boot to a catalog listing
> in a rather ghastly silence.