9 Sep
2011
9 Sep
'11
12:48 a.m.
On 8 Sep 2011 at 10:30, Chris M wrote:
And incidentally, I do like them. I just somehow
dislike them at the
same time (they're just different, unorthodox in some ways). They
earned general high marks w/me, being they were pretty much fully
compatible, and yet had that 640 x 400 color option. I've never owned
a color capable 6300/M24/Xerox ?, but still want to :(
One bonus is that they work very well with a modern VGA monitor--at
least the one I have does (rev. P8 video).
But I'll agree with the unorthodox part. But that inverted
motherboard means that the NiCad clock battery (it has a clock) when
it leaks, the goo goes *down*, off the board instead of coming down
onto it.
I expect that most of the 6300 batteries in existence have leaked in
the 25 years since this system was introduced.
But the video card serving the purpose of bridging the "bus
converter" board and the main CPU board and supplying power to both
is a little bizarre.
I can't say that I like the keyboard and there's not a lot of room
for hard drives in the case (Olivetti/AT&T did offer a sidecar if
more room was needed).
What was the application of the Z8530 SCC (socket normally
unpopulated)?
--Chuck