10 May
2006
10 May
'06
7:03 p.m.
Hello Don,
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 3:32:47 AM, you wrote:
Is this intended for a floppy? Or, some other
similar (physical) sized medium? I assume that
whatever sort of drive it is, it uses a SCSI interface
(I don't see any other provisions)?
the slot was used for the optional floptical drive.
How is (whatever) *mounted*? There is a sled for
hard disk in the "slot" below this but no obvious
clues as to how to mount anything *above*!
The floptical is mounted in just another drivesled on top of the
existing one. As far as I recall this requires that the drive doesn't
have it's plastic front cover installed:
http://storage.g-lenerz.de/images/sgistuff/indy-1601-drives.jpg
And, what sorts of add-ons (?) mate to the main
board (I see what appear to be two daughtercard
conectors).
This the GIO32 bus. Some cards that could be installed on top of the
graphics board were additional network/SCSI controllers or video
options.
Lastly, is any of this worth playing with?
Depends. If you are interested in UNIX workstations and haven't seen
IRIX then probably yes. All in all it's -depending on the actual
configuration- a decent 10+ year old machine which runs pretty silent
und makes for example a fine X terminal.
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Best regards,
Gerhard mailto:mail at g-lenerz.de