Corvus Concept was founded by Michael D'Addio and Mark Hahn in 1979.
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10 Facts About Corvus Concept
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Corvus Concept sold many stand alone drives whose numbers increased as they became shared over Omninet.
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In 1980 Corvus Concept came out with the first commercially successful local area network, called Omninet.
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Corvus Concept's Omninet ran at one megabit per second, used twisted pair cables and had a simple add-in card for each computer.
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The Corvus Concept was capable of using more RAM, and a simple hack provided up to 4MB.
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Corvus Concept interface, though not a GUI, was a standardized text user interface that made heavy use of function keys.
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Versions of the Corvus Concept running Unix were available; these configurations could not run standard Corvus Concept software.
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The system could boot from a locally connected floppy disk or Corvus Concept Hard Drive or it could be booted over the Omninet network.
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The Corvus Concept was available as part of turnkey systems from OEMs, such as the Oklahoma Seismic Corporation Mira for oil well exploration, and the KeyText Systems BookWare for publishing.
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