Data General Nova System

[JBandit19]

This may be a longshot, but i was recently going through some of my grandfather's workshop and came across a cabinet marked "Data General Nova System". I have looked around at various places online but haven't found many details about the system and what it was used for. I am hoping someone on here can maybe give me a little bit more information, when it might have been manufactured and what it was used for. It would also be awesome if someone could tell me if there is a market for these types of systems.

I have attached some pictures below.

Thank you for any and all help you guys might be able to provide. It is much appreciated.


-David

 

[whartung]

There's certainly some Nova expertise here. I'm not it, to be sure. At an uninformed glance, that looks incomplete, in that I don't think that is a complete system. Specifically, I don't think it has a processor. It looks more like a peripheral cabinet of some kind. It was likely made in the mid 70s. It certainly large enough to have a processor, but the Novas, as I understand it, were classic "switches and blinkenlights" style machines, and I see neither of those here. Just a disk drive and whatever that other thing is, perhaps a modem.

Someone else will no doubt chime in with something more authoritative.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Hard to say, but Bruce Ray at Wild Hare Computer Systems can probably tell you exactly what you have.

 

[daver2]

Yes, it looks like the processor box is missing. Have a look at this website https://www.pdp-11.nl/dg/nova4/nova4.html.

The box with the two blue switches on the left is the processor.

Dave

 

[whartung]

Yes, it looks like the processor box is missing. Have a look at this website https://www.pdp-11.nl/dg/nova4/nova4.html.

The box with the two blue switches on the left is the processor.

Yea, it's pretty clear that's what this is. A floppy and hard drive, but no processor.

 

[Al Kossow]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/36346551831...IAAOSwiT9g62xj

 

[Timo W.]

Makes me wonder why people even ask if they put it for big money on ebay without even waiting for answers about what they actually have there.