15 Jun
2010
15 Jun
'10
12:43 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
I assume most of us have never seen a C900. ?I need to
google it, as I'm
curious as to what it actually is.
I had to google it also. I found a page. It's a Z8000 based computer
that commodore was working on. They ditched it when they bought amiga
and sent all the prototype machines to a scrap company. So that would
make them very rare.
It also ran Coherent which was a pre-linux attempt to recreate a
non-unix unix. I used to run it on my 486 laptop. It worked great.
Good luck finding that software now. Although I'm sure a crazy
collector out there has it.
As for the keyboard, if a PC keyboard doesn't work, you might want to
try one from an amiga 2000. They had the same connector, but were not
PC compatible.
For the video, I'd just plug in any old VGA multi-sync monitor.
1024x800 just sounds like 1024x768 with some overscan.
As a side note, I'd love to have that case for a hacking project. But
such a thing would be unforgivable if the motherboard weren't a total
loss.
brian