Data General Eclipse
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The Data General Eclipse line of computers by Data General were 16-bit minicomputers released in early 1974 and sold until 1988. The Eclipse was based on many of the same concepts as the Data General
Data General Eclipse S/130 front panel
Data General microEclipse microprocessor
Data General Nova
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The Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s and ultimately sold tens of thousands of units.
Data General Eclipse
…computers by Data General were 16-bit minicomputers released in early 1974 and sold until 1988. The Eclipse was based on many of the same concepts as the Data General Nova, but included support for virtual memory and multitasking more suitable to the small office than the lab. It was also packaged differently for this…
Data General Nova 1200 front panel
A Nova 3 system (beige and yellow, center bottom) and a cartridge hard disk system (opened, below Nova) in a mostly empty rack mount
A Nova 820, mid-right, processed the images generated by the EMI-Scanner, the world's first commercially available CT scanner.
Nova 1200 CPU printed circuit board. The 74181 ALU is the large IC center-right.