22 Aug
2015
22 Aug
'15
3:05 a.m.
Something must be wrong here, the 29B/unipak is very easy to use.
I was the rep in Houston (USDATA) and I must have sold 50 of these. It went for $4500
with the unipak.
A typical demo we would plug in a dumb terminal, its a lot more effective demo to select a
device than from the keypad.
One of these I sold to Gateway Technologies, Rod Canion. The demo and sale went down at a
pancake house on the Southwest Freeway.
They used it to suck the BIOS out of the IBM PC, and form Compaq Computer.
Randy
Subject: Re: Data I/O 29B
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
From: aek at bitsavers.org
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:45:12 -0700
On 8/21/15 5:33 PM, Billy Pettit wrote:
This is the poorest documentation I've ever
seen on a piece of test equipment.
The problem is they went through at least three generations of
programming packs (individual device, unipak, unipack2/2A/2B)
There is a text file (unipak2.txt) that I sent you that lists
about 1000 devices along with the family and pin adapter.
I gave up on anything earlier than the 2900/3900/Unisite a LONG
time ago. I'd just offer them to people in the bay area and not
even bother testing them. I should have the docs on bitsavers for
them.