JP Hindin said,
I'll keep this public for a bit, see if any other
Series/1
owners appear.
I read through (alright, alright, skimmed) the three docs on
BitSavers and
believe my machine is a Model D revision, based on the card locations
(Although I didn't see any reason behind -why- the card positions
changed). This leads me to believe the unit has 64Kb of
memory as well,
which is nice. The cardcage is quite full (Only two empty
slots), so I'm
well stacked of I/O cards. I have the full rack, with a
single 8" drive,
and all the appropriate blanking panels. At one point the
machine had a
large hard disk - but this was taken apart by, presumably,
the same Hell
Spawn that took the power supply.
When the manual said '300W' I had hopes I might be able to jerry-rig
something... but upon looking at the four microribbons going
into the back
of the power supply casing, with what looks like 20 lines per
ribbon...
somehow I don't think I'll be able to deduce this without
some much better
hardware manuals (or, preferably, the real blasted PSU).
Given there must have been many of these units made (if they
were used in
Chevy manufacturing plants and the like), one would hope
someone on the
ccmp list has some OS media.
Anyone?
JP
I have some processors/parts of Series/1 but it's all very very rough.
Mostly stored semi-outside before I found it.
It might be useful for a reconstruction effort though. Not sure exactly
where this stuff is right now but if you don't mind waiting a while I'm sure
I can find some of it, probably including a PS.
As you have said, it was associated with a GM plant. There are still some
tape readers in reasonably good condition at the junkyard.
I have quite a few 8" floppies that I believe have some association with the
equipment, but of course, no way to tell what might be on them.
Dan
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