Tarsi,
Three of my close friends bought 6300s when they were new so I'm fairly
familar with them. What do you want to know? Here's few facts: They were
made by Olivette. They use the same video card for monochrome or color
monitors. The monitors do not have a power cord, they get their power
through the video connector. The resolution on the color monitor is higher
than that on a PC and is non-standard. They seem to be very IBM compatible,
the AT&T DOS seems to work fine on a PC. I'm not sure if vice versa is
true. The hard drives in them seem to be very unreliable. Owners of most of
the ones that I know of ended up putting hard cards in theirs. The
keyboard, mouse and monitor are all special and won't interchange with any
other machine that I know of. I know where there are several here in
Florida that you can have cheap ($0) if you'll come get them. I think
there's still a set of docs there too. There should be one color monitor
there with them. If I remember right, the new price on them was about $2700
for the monochrome model and $3200 for the color model and I THINK that was
with just two floppy drives. They had an AT&T version of MS-DOS. I THINK
they came with version 2.11. I should still have a copy here somewhere if
you want a copy. I think it had a few enhancements of the same version of
IBM DOS but I don't remember exactly what they were.
Joe
At 07:56 PM 10/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
Hello, all!
A new addition to my collection, an AT&T 6300 PC. Some stats that I have
so far:
i8086 CPU
640 K RAM
Weird keyboard
green monochrome display
Boots MSDOS 3.3 happily
I'll do some searching on the web later tonight for info on it, as well as
cleaning it up, but if anyone has information on this little artifact, its
abilities, software, manuals, or hardware specs, all is appreciated.
Thanks! I'm just so happy I found him! (oh, and for $3 at Goodwill)
Tarsi
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