"Downtime is the worst of all possible times... Data General, the company that engineered the anxiety out of computers"
The EMC Westborough Data Centre closes; EMC acquired Data General in 1999 (link).
An earlier model, the Eclipse MV/2500 operating microcode diagnostics; courtesy of Stephen Merrony (link).
Some video footage of a Data General Nova and disk assemblies in operation; courtesy of Andre Schaefer (link).
Running CEO on a Data General MV/4000. CEO (Comprehensive Electronic Office software) was a productivity suite (word processor, mail, display, print, calendar, filesystem, etc); courtesy of Tommy Mademark (link).
This ad from the archives highlights the crucial role that Data General computer systems had in issues of national importance in Ireland; courtesy of Internet Lurker (link).
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The Eagle project was eventually christened the MV/8000 by Data General's marketing group (Kidder, 1981). The Eclipse MV/8000 was Data General's first 32 bit mini computer.
See from 6' into the following video (link) where Tom West (Senior VP Systems Development) refers to the launch of the MV/8000 on April 28 1980 before bringing us through the following decade of computer development at Data General. He outlines the evolution of subsequent generations of Data General computers leading to the launch of systems using a single chip microprocessor (MV/5500 & MV/9500).
