26 Feb
1998
26 Feb
'98
7:11 a.m.
Ward,
I went to an auction at KSC this morning and bought a complete Commodore
Pet computer system. They had a bunch of AT&Ts there, 3B2/400s and
3B2/600s. Should I have gotten those? I know who has them.
Joe
At 12:56 AM 2/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
Joe wrote:
BTW is there a way to tell if this is a 7300
or a 3B1, other than the
markings on the bottom of the case? The markings say this is a 7300 but I
was told that only the 3B1 has the hump in the case and this one has a
hump. The front label says it has a 40 Mb hard drive and du verifies that.
Yes, that is a 3B1. The 7300 had a 10Mb or 20Mb drive, no hump. The
3B1 had a 40Mb or 67Mb drive and a hump. There was an upgrade from the
7300 to the 3B1 and I'd hate to be the tech installing it -- dismounting
the monitor is a bitch. 3B1s generally had the later motherboard revs
and an extra fan, plus the power supply was beefed up -- those were NOT
part of the upgrade. There is an extensive 7300/3B1 faq kicking around,
gimme a second to xwindow over --
<http://www.mathcs.rhodes.edu/~stuart/3b1/3b1.html>. You'll also find
information on upgrades unsupported and unauthorized by either AT&T or
Convergent Technologies. The user community has shrunk in this past
decade, but those left are as fanatical as any other holdouts. And I
type that as a holdout in several other computer communities (not to
mention my non-euclidian political stands).
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.