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7:06 p.m.
I am trying to identify various computers that have had their ports
situated in the front of the chassis as opposed to the back.
The Atari 800 would be one example (game ports in the front). Are there
any other examples anyone can think of, especially where peripheral (disk,
printer) or perhaps network ports are concerned?
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8:05 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
The JC80/85 systems had tons of connections in the front of their chassis.
The remote loop racks are full of boards that have screw terminals along
their front edge. Those racks of boards handle nearly all the I/O for
these building automation system computers. I guess those could be
considered "ports" ;)
-Toth
I am trying to
identify various computers that have had their ports
situated in the front of the chassis as opposed to the back.
Many computers built in 19" racks of Eurocards (e.g. Acorn Systems) have
the I/O connectors on the front edge of the boards. 
17 Dec
17 Dec
4:18 p.m.
New subject: Atari 8bit "Ethercart" Project
For anyone who is interested in assisting with this project to give Atari
8bit computers ethernet & tcp/ip capabilities, please join the group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atari_ethercart
So far uIP has been ported over to the Atari 8bits and has been tested and
works with R: device drivers.
C64's using the TFE (The Final Ethernet) have successfully achieved ethernet
connectivity and more, so based on the same hardware we want to design a
CS8900 based Ethernet controller to fit into a standard Atari ROM program
cartridge case and incorporate the needed hardware and also look into having
the device driver and uIP stack load into memory from an onboard eprom as
well.
Curt
9:21 a.m.
A few more:
MicroVax III, everything's out the front,
including the power cord.
Palm series, probably the whole line,
when lying on a table
A rack-mount analog computer,
if you really want ports.
John A.
16 Dec
16 Dec
7:49 p.m.
And of course the Atari STs with the mouse/joystick located under
the front of the unit. An aftermarket was created to answer the
problem of having to turn the ST on it's side, being careful not to
dislodge other connections. Curse you Sam Tramiel, you perverse
S.O.B. for fouling an otherwise wonderful machine. (We won't mention
the perverted SCSI port ATASCI for hard drives)
Lawrence
On 13 Dec 2002, , Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I am trying to identify various computers that have had their ports
situated in the front of the chassis as opposed to the back.
The Atari 800 would be one example (game ports in the front). Are there
any other examples anyone can think of, especially where peripheral
(disk, printer) or perhaps network ports are concerned?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I am trying to identify various computers that have had their ports
situated in the front of the chassis as opposed to the back.
The Atari 800 would be one example (game ports in the front). Are there
any other examples anyone can think of, especially where peripheral (disk,
printer) or perhaps network ports are concerned?
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Sellam Ismail
The Amiga 2000 had the keyboard and mouse/joystick ports out the front.
Gary Hildebrand
17 Dec
17 Dec
8:58 a.m.
Most 10/100 rackmount network switches have all their ports on the front,
and the big ones can certainly be considered fully valid computers.
Vintage Computer Festival said:
I am trying to identify various computers that have had their ports
situated in the front of the chassis as opposed to the back.
The Atari 800 would be one example (game ports in the front). Are there
any other examples anyone can think of, especially where peripheral (disk,
printer) or perhaps network ports are concerned?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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4:19 p.m.
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Subject: Computers with ports coming out the front?
I am trying to identify various computers that have had their ports
situated in the front of the chassis as opposed to the back.
The Atari 800 would be one example (game ports in the front). Are there
any other examples anyone can think of, especially where peripheral (disk,
printer) or perhaps network ports are concerned?
Off the top of my head:
Atari 400 (game ports)
Amstrad PCW9512 (keyboard)
Amstrad PCW10 (keyboard)
Amstrad PCW16 (keyboard)
Amstrad MegaPC (game controllers)
Apple LISA (keyboard)
BBC Micro (cheating slightly since they were underneath the machine, but
still at the front)
CBM PET 8096SK (keyboard)
CBM B700 (keyboard) and probably all other seperate-keyboard PETs
can't think of any more for now.
cheers
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6:07 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Witchy wrote:
can't think of any more for now.
I can think of one more, anyway.
The Amiga 2000 had its keyboard and mouse/joystick ports on the front of
the cabinet, underneath the disk drives.
Not only that, but most home video game consoles have their game
controller ports on the front (the Atari VCS did not). I don't know
whether this counts as an answer to Sellam's question, though.
ok
r.
19 Dec
19 Dec
8:07 a.m.
The Amiga 1000 has a front mounted memory expansion port. It's covered (or
should be anyway) if that matters.
Nick
1:41 p.m.
The IBM PS/1 20xx models also had a memory slot on
the front behind a faceplate.
Lawrence
On 18 Dec 2002, , Nick Miller wrote:
The Amiga 1000 has a front mounted memory expansion
port.
It's covered (or should be anyway) if that matters.
Nick
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