Televideo TS-806/20

Well, I'm not sure I agree about the relative importance of cables with which to interface a hard disk. That's probably the one thing that makes a computer compute fast enough to be useful. First of all I'd try 9600 baud before anything else, since I believe that's the default. I don't remember what the board switches do, but I can hunt around for the manual and get back to you. I wouldn't use PCAW, as a terminal, myself. I haven't had good luck with it. How about Hyperterminal of Procomm. I've used both of those in connection with a PC and had better luck than with PCAW, though I've had good luck using PCAW for file transfers, etc. This box was ostensibly a file server and probably contains VERY important software, e.g. the MMMost (or whatever it was called) network OS, which isn't around any longer. This box is capable of serving as a single-user system, but if you still have the HDD, from which it should boot all by itself if it hasn't been roached up, you might want to preserve it. Well you're in luck . . . I got a phone interruption after which I thought of a place to look for the manual...Oddly enough, that's where it was. The manual says the "upper" four bits of the dip switch is used for baud rate settings. The lower four bits (5,6,7,8) are unused except for position 8 which is reserved for diagnostics. Obviously, the one who wrote this manual was on drugs. A closed switch is a zero. The baud rates go from 19.2K down to 75, with ascending values from 0000 to 1000, remembering that a 0 means CLOSED. Switch 1 is the lsb. I hope that helps you get it going! If you need a boot diskette, maybe I can help you there as well. Televideo, by the way, is still in business, so it's not inconceivable they might be able to help too, if you ask them. Dick