22 Apr
2007
22 Apr
'07
5:08 p.m.
On Apr 22, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:
I wonder how many of the
PC-compatible-yet-goofy-hardware 808x
clones have been lost to the ages. I still own my AT&T PC 6300,
proprietary 640x400 (not a typo) monitor and all, and consider it
just barely compatible enough to hold onto. (I have pretty high
standards; I can count the number of apps/games that will never run
on it on both hands). Then again, who am I kidding; it was the
first PC that our family personally owned (father was AT&T
employee) so I'd probably try to keep it going no matter what.
I sold and serviced 6300s (and 7300s, and a few non-AT&T machines)
at my first job. I really liked those 6300s. They were built by
Olivetti, who did a great job on them...they were built like tanks!
This was around 1985 or so. The computer store I worked for had
an interesting deal going. We were a small independent computer
store in a mall, but we had a corporate sales group which did pretty
good business. We had an odd deal going in which we were selling
AT&T computers to...AT&T. :-) We delivered dozens upon dozens of
6300s to the AT&T Basking Ridge facility in NJ, which we
affectionately knew as "Taj Mahal"...that building is HUGE.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL