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Hi PG31, my apologies for thinking you might be. I worked with Paul at Trivector and when you emntioned you also used to work on their equipment I was hoping you would be. No worries, thanks for responding in any case.

Hi Chuck, used to fix these systems back inthe '80s, the T4 and the one you mention, the TriLab systems - many of these systems were very innovative for their time

Hi Alex Which area would that be so i could do the same? tx antony

here is Prince Philip - with me at Trivector

Hi Jonhales For your last post re Trivector, it moves to Sandy after a wbile, as I worked with them in that premises from 83-86, so I am curious, and need to send a note to the link (computinghistory) as to the date it supposed closed, because it was still running a few years after I left. I...

In fact we had a lot of "fun" with the T4 that was being used by the Police Groups, esp the Met, whio moved these systems around regularly, and we, the engineers, esp based in Sandy, were in the cop shops a lot sorting out the drives that they forgot to lock!!!

Yep, and there was a switch on the T4 that would do that for you eventually. However, that proved troublesome at times... esp with Doctors and staff!!!! But to move, you are right, there was the physical scerew at the back!!!

Trivector was pretty innovative at the time, Les, main owner and brain behind the developments was really good. I remember him reviewing the Rodine 5.25 hard drives at the time, a new idea from the floppies! We used these in much of the scientific equipment after this, some of these systems were...

Hi Jdreesen As this was such a long time ago, I no longer have any docs, and not much existed then, only what was in our heads. The T3 did have a tape backup system and the CPU used to link to the old CRT and Winchester H/D via the cards that you have, all run from the motherboard. So even the...

Hi Anyone here still remember the newspaper systems that were being installed/maintained by GB Techniques in the late '80s? I used to travel around the country maintaining the CP/M based systems for the local rags like Bishop Stortford. Or any other systems and GB Techniques related activities...

Hi all As this post is referring to Trivector, you might like to know that we had a system in Buckingham Palace for the late Prince Philip, the Triton 4. The Prince even piad us a visit and I still have a pic of him coming into my repair room and talking with me!!! I have a feeling the PG31 is...

Hi Roland, as an ex Trivector engineer, I do not recall this being one of their machines, at least not in the time I was there around '83-'86 (if memory serves well!!!!. There is a supposed T3 system pic on this site, which is more familiar, as are some of the pics below -...

The first few pics are T3s but the disk drives are not part of the system, we used the Winchester hard drives 11 and 22 mgs.. big storage then, sealed units but would crash now and then

Hi PG31, I realise this is a very long time ago when you posted the above, only just found this forum - I too used to repair these systems as worked at Trivector in Sandy as an engineer... The pic at the start of this forum is not a Triton 3, though the other pics Mar23 2017, the first few are...