21 Sep
2000
21 Sep
'00
12:21 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Dahl Pind" <rachael_(a)gmx.net>
To: "classic computers" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 2:35 PM
Subject: NCR tower32
My friend has found a NCR Tower32 machine, seems to
be
build around a motorola 68020 board with a vme bus, it
has a number of dsub 15pin ports on tha back, seems to be
somekind of terminal interface.
Does anyone have any infomation about such a machine ?
regards Jacob Dahl Pind
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Well, I don't know a whole lot about the machine, but basically:
* It's built around a pretty basic 68020 system with all the
trimmings (68851 and 68881 both, I think).
* It's probably got one or two hard disks hanging off
of a rather boring ST-506 ("MFM") interface, along
with a tape drive as well.
* The 15 pin ports are proprietary serial ports for the NCR
terminals. I don't know if they can be broken out to something
more standard or if the system needs anything special that
the NCR terminals provide.
* I gather it runs a pretty much stock version of UNIX; I
think this system is Pre-AT&T buyout.
* NetBSD mentions it on their "suggested ports" page. There's
like a paragraph there that sums up the machine pretty well, too.
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