12 Jun
1998
12 Jun
'98
1:50 p.m.
Uncle Roger wrote:
Found a stack of AT&T computers. Some are labelled "PC 6300" (The unix
PC,
iirc?) but others are marked "6300 WGS", a designation I've not heard of
before. In any case, is anyone interested in them? They're available at a
good price. Condition unknown, possible monitors/keyboards, but dunno.
Lemme know if I should pick 'em up.
The 6300 was not the Unix PC, it was an Olivetti-built more-or-less
PC-compatible system. The WGS series happened later, they spanned
systems from 8088 to at least 80386-25 before AT&T switched from
Olivetti to Intel boxes (yes, Intel built complete PCs). The 6300+
(80286) _did_ run Unix and featured the first DOS-under-Unix product,
SimulTask 1.0.
I've got an AT&T 6386E tower next to me that will be used (box and
power supply anyway) as a home for my workstation from Hell as soon
as motherboard design changes stabilise for two months in a row.
The old 386/25 motherboard will be placed on the wall as either a
decoration or as a warning depending on the size of the nails I use.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_