Perkin-Elmer 7300

System III or MicroXelos (UniPlus System V)... There were a number of misfeatures including a very slow video card and a bus that couldn't handle faster chips than the 68k that was in it. I dumped a pickup truck full of 'em (7350's) in the trash after rescuing a bunch out of Concurrent in '89 or so. Couldn't give 'em away at Trenton. I had all the distribution software including RM/Cobol, Idris, and stuff. Later I wanted to get my hands on a Masscomp 5550 or so to replace it. Concurrent bought up Masscomp but getting the boxes was nearly impossible at the time and FreeBSD and Linux made the 68010/020/030 Masscomps less than attractive in a price/performance/size kind of way. They also needed heavy hot tubes like the early Suns did. There was an attempt to get Concurrent to build a 68020 version of the 7350 for Perkin-Elmer (since they split into two companies) and the 68000 would barely take a 68010... but the Versabus backplane had noise and timing issues when you tried to push it. There was even an XF/200? version -- with 16 (IIRC serial ports). I ran a news feed to the box at home with 2 80 meg MFM ST506 drives... Slow but it worked. Fed it with a Trailblazer Plus and later a T2500. Amazing, but I think the modem had more processing power. Now the video cards have more power than the CPU's did back then. Bill -- d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@ureach.com