[Coco] OS-9 History

[Allen Huffman]

> I thought I read that one of the early space shuttle missions was running
> OS9 ????

An OS-9/68K system definitely flew as an experiment on a Shuttle mission. I had one of the guys who worked on it in a training class once, and we used a NASA logo on one of our presentations as an example of places OS-9 had been used. But the Shuttle itself did not, as far as I know.

Famous OS-9 uses:

Star Trek the Experience in Las Vegas has some OS-9000.

The Treasure Island pirate ship thing in Las Vegas used some OS-9 Gespac thing at some point.

Caltrans (California Transportation) probably still has 68000 based OS-9 machines in old 2070 traffic controller boxes.

Motorola Pagewriter, one of the first two-way text pagers, was 68000 OS-9.

Uniden Axis was an e-mail telephone that ran OS-9 (consumer product).

Of course, Phillips CD-i players.

I used to have a list of these things to mention, but I have forgotten most of that.

	-- A