14 May
2001
14 May
'01
4:22 p.m.
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
I don't suppose anyone knows anything about a
machine called the Diablo
3000? It may be related to this one.
Physically, it's a large desktop case with a 12" mono CRT on the left
side of the front panel and 2 vertically mounted 8" drives on the right.
The separate keyboard is wired into the unit with a cable that can't be
unplugged at either end without dismantling the machine somewhat. On the
back of the main unit is a DB25 connector that I assumed was an RS232
port for a daisywheel printer (probably a Diablo 630 or similar).
It would seem to be later than the 3200 since it uses an 8085. But no,
never heard of it. Interesting though!
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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From what I remmeber of the insides, the drives
and monitor are what
you'd expect. There's a little cardcage behind the
monitor that contains
4 (IIRC) boards. One of them has an 8085 CPU on it, another was RAM, and
another was a disk controller (I think there was an 8039 microcontroller
on this one -- I don't remember a standard FDC chip). The power supply
was in the base of the machine under all that lot. I don't really
remember any more details.