20 May
2000
20 May
'00
6:24 a.m.
This sounds like an early Dolch network analyser. Network General
(Computer Associates, now) used to sell some Dolch models although in
recent years they ran Windoze.
DOLCH made (makes?) industrial strength intel machines which were popular
among the military or industrial heavy duty crowd. I saw a Dolch
marketing pamphlet which featured a similar machine mounted in a Jeep.
It sounds like at the very least you might have the FDDI and token ring
(TR?) analysis options in there. Not a cheap machine in its day or even
likely today.
The first step to get around the login problem would be to try to
interrupt the boot process and sent it to single user mode.
Try a CTRL C early in the boot process. (A handy way to interrupt older
OS's like Ultrix in their boot...) If you get to the # prompt you
should be in as root.
Paul
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Joe wrote:
Here's something else that I picked up in a
load of old computers last
week. It's one of those oversize lunch box computers with the keyboard that
folds up against one side and covers the screen. It has six ISA type card
slots that lay horizontal in the main unit. There's also a piggy back unit
that has three more ISA type slots that stand vertical. The logo on the
keyboard says "Tekelec" and ChameLAN 100-S". After some work, I finally
got it to boot. The first surprise was that the LCD screen is a backlit
color screen. The next surprise is that it boots into some kind of UNIX. I
never did see a name for the UNIX but it pops up a number of different
copyright notices including one for DOLCH, Tekelec and the usual UNIX ones.
I couldn't get past the login id/password prompt. Any suggestions about
how to get around it?
It has some strange cards in it including several that appear to be very
fancy Ethernet cards and another that has four fiber-optic connectors. The
three boards in the piggy back unit are physicaly bolted together and each
one has a four pin power connector similar to a 5 1/4" disk drive. There
is a cable that connects to a each of those power connectors and a power
outlet on the motherboard. The external connectors on these boards are
marked "Bypass Control", "TR1" and "TR2" and
"AUX". One of the boards has a
big IC that's marked AMD AM79C830GC on it. I haven't been able to find a
refernece to this chip. One of the other boards has an AMD AM7984AJC/20 on
it. I haven't found a reference to that one either. Does anyone know what
they are?
The main computer is a 32 Mhz 486 with 16 Mb of RAM. The hard drive is a
type 11 245 Mb IDE drive and it has a 1/3 height 1.44 Mb floppy drive.
There are also extra LED indicators on the front of the computer that are
marked "Ring Op" "Pri" "Sec", Signal Detect"
"A" "B" and "Active" "A" "B".
Does anyone know what this machine is made for or anything else about it?
Joe