28 Feb
1998
28 Feb
'98
5:32 a.m.
It's a highly hackable machine used alot by hams in the Days of the
Ancients to talk to packet TNCs and such.
I am currently restoring one that you can see at
http://www.retrocomputing.com. It was hacked into a sturdy galvanized
steel enclosure, has a double density daughter card and dual 8" Shugart
drives. I also have a pile of spare parts as well as ALOT of
documentation and boot disks, although I haven't gotten around to booting
it up and making copies of the boot disks. I do have enough spares to
build a couple more machines if I had drives to connect to them. The
Computer Journal http://www.psyber.com/~tcj (I THINK!) had some
schematics for them in the centerfold back in like 91 or 93 if I recall.
Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Joe wrote:
I found a XEROX 820 in a trift store today. Can anyone
tell me what it is?
It has a base unit with a built in monitor. It has four ports on it. One
connects to a daul 5 1/4" disks drives in an external box. Another connects
to a separate keyboard. The other two are for a serial port and printer port.