6 Oct
1999
6 Oct
'99
12:58 a.m.
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 19:25:40 -0400 (EDT), Bill Yakowenko said:
The 6300+ has no setting. The memory amount was set by dip switches
on the motherboard. It's kind of a 286 XT board with NO CMOS
equivalent. It does have a clock battery (nicad) but it has drive type
set by dip switches as well.
Bill
What makes you think it is a 6286EL? I know next
to nothing
about these AT&T boxes, so I never would have guessed anything
besides what it says on the label. Is it just because it's a
286 box? It quite definitely says "6300 PLUS" on the machine
itself and on all of the floppies that I got with it.
I have been reading this 6300 discussion for a while, but I still don't
know which computer exactly this is. I know the Italian firm Olivetti
built the 6300 series for AT&T, just like they built a number of DECpc's
for Digital. I only know the original Olivetti's, and can't determine
which Olivetti hides behind the 6300 label. The standard 286 Olivetti
clone systems I have used, always complained about a parity error if there
was RAM memory removed from the system and this was not updated in the
cmos setup.