12 Feb
2001
12 Feb
'01
8:11 a.m.
It's a heavy and rather slow beast. I dumped
about 30 of them
ten years ago.
I tried to sell mine, complete with docs for $15 at a Hamfest nearly 10
years ago and got no nibbles. This was before Linux hit it big.
The 68000 can be replaced with a 68010 for a slight
pickup in performance.
That's nice to know. I have a few '010s (the VAX-BI COMBOARD used them).
I didn't assume it was a drop-in replacement due to the MOVEcc instruction
being now priv'ed (AmigaDOS 1.1 will croak if you upgrade the CPU without
running a TRAP patch (available in the olden days). The calc program was
the way to test the patch. If you Guru'ed, you weren't patched.
It ran either Uniplus (SysIII with some BSD add on
stuff like vi)...
As I said, mine has Uniplus (w/boxed docs and media).
The graphics are pretty slow and the bus can't
really crank past the
slow speed the Versabus is running at.
We used ours strictly for text-based development on the console and a couple
of TTY ports. Still, it wasn't a fast compiler, I did notice, even in 1987
when I was using it.
The machines are pretty solid -- I took a news feed on
an XF200
(MicroXelos version of the box in a tower case with 3 80mb drives in
it).
Fun. What kind of disc? SCSI? Am I right in remembering that the 7500
has SASI?
The box had 15 serial ports on it plus the console.
Wild little
minitower. Worked great. Never sold.
I'm sure by the time it was produced, the world had moved on.
-ethan
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