Intergraph InterPro 220

[steve s]

Hello,

I recently discovered one of these while doing some cleaning. I
obtained it years ago and it is fully functional on a hardware level.
I have the keyboard/mouse/power cord and the machine boots. However --
it appears that the OS has been deleted off the hard drive, or there
are no partitions.

Does anyone have any old CLIX software that would run on this? Is it
even worth the effort or should I landfill this? I can't seem to find
anything much about these computers online and especially, I can't
find any software to run on them. I was hoping Linux would work but
this stuff appears to pre-date Linux significantly. I now understand
that CLIX is the only OS which will run on this machine but have no
idea where one would find CLIX install disks. However my searching has
led me to this newsgroup and a yahoo group with a small amount of
members, but not very much else.

Anyone reading this? Any help or advice would be appreciated!

Steve

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <1186614210.0...@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, steve s

Steve,

I'm a newbie just as you are, I have an Interpro 125
sitting in my basement for 2 years now and I don't know what to do with it,
except for using it as a doorstop or a pedestal for other stuff.
I don't even have a keyboard nor a monitor cable, just a lonely mouse
which seems to fit.
I google'd a lot and collected some sparse info on a lame preliminary
page (I can send it in a private e-mail, if you like).
AFAIK there's no other OS for the Clipper boxes than CLIX,
because Intergraph refused to give details on the innards of
their boxes. Anyway they dumped their Clipper business a long time ago.
Some CLIX boot images (but probably not the whole OS)
were once available at starfish, but this site is gone now.
I had rescued some of them, others might still be available via

http://web.archive.org/web/20060428013758/starfish.osfn.org/Intergraph/

maybe that helps,
MK

[steve s]

On Aug 9, 4:43 am, m.krae...@gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:
> In article <1186614210.001578.290...@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, steve s

Hello there Michael,

Your response, coupled with the other response I got seem to suggest
that actually getting anywhere with my IP220 is not likely to happen.
However, when you were describing yours I thought it was kind of funny
because mine has the keyboard but NOT the mouse. *grin* I think I do
have the mouse but it's likely in a large box of old discarded stuff I
haven't went through yet.

I learned a bit from that Starfish site you found on archive.org,
thanks! I'm now wondering if there is anyone out there who is
collecting these machines who would want the one I have, because it's
not of any real use to me. But thanks for your help finding some
information -- I wouldn't mind taking a peek at that preliminary page
you have set up if it's no trouble...

Thanks,
Steve