18 Feb
2002
18 Feb
'02
6:50 a.m.
I found a Varian 402 Data Station. It's basically a Z80 machine with a
built-in CRT, 2 disk drives, and a thermal printer. It's huge.
When I fire it up, I get no activity on the CRT, but the thermal printer
goes into a self-test, pauses for a moment, then repeats. It does this
endlessly, so something must be wrong.
No activity on the disk drives either.
A Google search turned up nothing useful.
Anyone have any experience with these things?
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