22 Jan
2008
22 Jan
'08
9:23 a.m.
Jeff Brendle wrote:
And also remember that these things used funky ESDI
drives, I
think mostly Maxstor, I think they topped out at 320MB.
Yep, ours certainly has three ESDI Maxtors in it - I don't recall if they're
320MB or 360MB now.
It's got a SCSI (external) tape unit with it too which is via some flavour of
Adaptec controller (presumably the 1540B that Steve mentions).
The megapixel console monitor had real slow graphics
but it
could use a Hercules card. The terminal cards had odd AMP connectors on
'em I think. Ideally you get one with the slightly faster cpu card that
had added the moto fpu.
We were lucky (thanks, Pete!) in that ours was a full CAD system with the
faster CPU board setup and the 5085 graphics processor cabinet / 5081 display,
plus it came with a boat-load of manuals and disks. Definitely a very weird
and wonderful system :-)