2 Apr
2014
2 Apr
'14
10:12 a.m.
On 02/04/14 09:26, Seth Morabito wrote:
After hunting for what seems like ages, I finally
acquired an AT&T PC
7300 today. In most ways it's fairly modest (40MB disk, 2 MB RAM), but
I was very excited to find that it does have the Ethernet expansion
card installed.
I reset the root password and got into the system. It has the TCP/IP
drivers loaded, and I'm able to do marvelous things like telnet and
ftp on my LAN. Remarkable!
I am officially jealous. Neither of my 3B1s have the Ethernet adapters,
though one has UUCP and (if memory serves) TCP/IP installed.
I'd also love to find any other commercial
software that was
available. I could swear that there used to be archives of the stuff
online, but if there were, I certainly can't find them now. Bitsavers
has the stock system software, for which I'm grateful, but not very
much else.
I've got a few apps here in the form of DiscFerret images. Troff, C
Trainer, a database package and a few other oddments. I've heard rumours
of a version of MS Word for it, but haven't seen a physical copy.
If you're into software development, you'll want the Developers Set.
That's on Bitsavers.
George Hamstra's "Digital Dark Ages" archive has some useful stuff (not
just the system images):
http://www.go-ev.com/dda/
It's easy enough to get access -- just email him and ask nicely, let him
know you've got a UNIX PC and would like access to that part of the archive.
Other than that there's Taronga and UNIXPC.org:
http://unixpc.taronga.com/
http://www.unixpc.org/
That's the ones I know off the top of my head... I have a copy of the
UTZOO Netnews archive somewhere around here, which includes a fairly
complete archive of posts to 3b1.* and comp.sys.3b1, including some
which (IIRC) Google Groups doesn't have indexed. Unless they've fixed
that in the past few years, I mean...
Cheers,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/