Hi guys,
A few of you might be aware of my UNIX PC emulator, FreeBee (also known
as 3b1emu) and the issues regarding it not being able to boot UNIX
properly... and my complaints about the quality of the PAL equations in
the technical reference.
Well, an anonymous donor very kindly freight-forwarded a UNIX PC to me.
Sadly the original sender didn't pack it very well... The machine was
sent unwrapped with only a few foam peanuts in the box. It arrived with
a "resealed by USPS" sticker, a "resealed by Parcelforce" sticker and
the keyboard hanging out of one edge of the box.
Here's what's missing or wrecked -- does anyone have any of the
following 3B1 or 7300 parts spare?
Keyboard -
* Top cover, several broken screw posts in the top cover. These look
difficult to re-glue...
* F8, HELP UP/DN, NEXT/3, ROLL DOWN/0 and RIGHT CURSOR/. keycaps.
Monitor -
* Monitor stand (tilt/swivel section) smashed to pieces. Probably need
a new lower monitor case from a scrap 3B1 to fix this :(
I'd also rather like to find out what sort of connector was used for the
power connector at the PSU side - the cable and connector are badly
burned (apparently a common problem).
On a lighter note, the machine is fairly well specified - with a P5.1
motherboard, two 67MB hard drives (both Miniscribe 3085 units) and some
unusual I/O cards. One is probably a modem (three RJ11 sockets), another
has a 37-way female D-sub and the third I can't remember off hand.
I still need to formulate a plan to power it up - I'd rather not use an
ATX PSU, and the original switcher is 115V only. The 20A current
requirement on 5V means none of my bench PSUs are suitable...
It also wants +12V (which I expected - the HDDs and line drivers need
that) and -12V (probably for RS232 and the modem)...
Much thinking needed, I dare say...
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/