Hopefully this place will eventually contain bits that will allow hobbyists to make good use of "classic" Intergraph- manufactured Clipper- based computer systems.
At the moment, however, all that's here are boot/rebuild floppy images that will allow one to boot an otherwise- barren Clipper system into the "rebuild" environment. There's no software here yet, so once you've managed to boot your Clipper you still need to find a "Systems Software" CD set.
You find "boot" and "root" floppy images. These images may be written to physical floppies using a UNIX "dd" command.
dd if={image-file} of={floppy-device} bs=512You don't. There's nothing to "install" from a software perspective; what's here are images that allow you to bootstrap a Clipper that you otherwise don't have floppies for.
Floppy images are for either 5 1/4 inch disks or 3 1/2 inch disks depending on what the particular Intergraph iron supported.
Browse below to find your particular machine:
125/32C/220/225 Systems (80186 IOP w/ROP Graphics) 200/240 Systems (80186 IOP w/optional IFB Graphics) 300/400/3000/4000 Systems (80386 IOP w/optional IFB Graphics) 2000 Systems (C300 Clipper IOP w/optional MMG Graphics) 6000 Systems (C300 Clipper IOP w/optional EDGE Graphics) 2400 Systems (C4T Clipper w/GTPLUS Graphics) 6400/6450 Systems (C4T Clipper w/GTII Graphics) 6440/6480 Systems (C4T Clipper w/EDGE Graphics) 6600 Servers (C400 Clipper Servers) 6640/6680 Systems (C400 Clipper w/EDGE graphics) 6700/6800 Servers (C400I Clipper Server) 6740/6780/6840/6880 Systems (C400I Clipper w/EDGE graphics) 6750/6850 Systems (C400I Clipper w/GT graphics) 2500/2700/2800 Systems (C400I Clipper Servers) 2530/2730/2830 Systems (C400I Clipper w/GT graphics)
Select the platform you have, download the images, and write them to floppy disks (of the proper size) using UNIX's "dd" command. Insert the "boot" floppy into your otherwise- dead Clipper and power it up. It should access the floppy, load code from it, and present you with the famous Intergraph "blue screen". This is from a time when a "blue screen" meant "SUCCESS!" rather than "failure".
Assuming the boot floppy works properly, and you need to scratch- load your Clipper, select "REBUILD" from the options list. You'll then be prompted to insert the other "root" disks as required.
No. CLIX is it. Intergraph have steadfastly over the years refused to release any internal hardware documentation, and now that Intergraph Computer Systems is a dead entity, Intergraph itself having become a software house, there's precious little hope in anything getting ported to the iron.
He's somebody who desperately needs a life.
More to the point, he's Carl R. Friend who happens to have a passion for old hardware; amongst which are Intergraph Clippers. Yes, that happens to be a Clipper in the photograph behind him -- an InterPro 2020 to be exact, named "Maddog".
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