4 Jun
2004
4 Jun
'04
1:57 a.m.
Hello everyone.
Several years ago I got a Xerox workstation from a junkyard. I believe
the model is a Daybreak. At that time I got it partially booting,
using some homebrew interfacing hardware.
At the meantime I got married, and I have to get rid of the thing
(lack of space and wife's interest ;). However, I don't want it teared
apart for recycling. I want it preserved. Therefore, I'm puting it to
sale!
I live in Lisbon, Portugal (EU).
I have some photos online at the following URL:
http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/library/gallery/Xeroxworkstation
I also have three peripherals: two tape streamers and one 5 1/4 floppy
drive.
Since it has no keyboard, mouse or monitor, I built interfaces to
connect it to a VGA monitor, and to a PC. I can include the stuff I
did with the machine.
Cheers,
Rodrigo Ventura
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4 Jun
4 Jun
5:48 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Since it has no keyboard, mouse or monitor, I built
interfaces to
connect it to a VGA monitor, and to a PC. I can include the stuff I
did with the machine.
Proving once again that anyone can do anything if they haven't been told
it's supposed to be impossible!
I remember discussions on this list way back when where the conclusion was
that it would be extraordinarily difficult if not impossible to hook a VGA
monitor to a Daybreak.
Rodrigo rocks!
Rodrigo, do you have any notes that you wrote down for this project?
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7:22 a.m.
At 07:48 AM 6/4/04 -0700, you wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> Since it has no keyboard, mouse or monitor, I built interfaces to
> connect it to a VGA monitor, and to a PC. I can include the stuff I
> did with the machine.
I believe I still have a keyboard, mouse and (big maybe) possibly some
other parts for one of these machines. Years and years ago I picked one
up, but could never get it running. The machine is now long gone, but the
keyboard and mouse are still here.
The external 5.25" floppy drive is probably still around here somewhere,
and the HDD maybe in amongst the other MFM HDDs here. It could take a
while to find them though.
If someone needs them they're available for 1.5 x shipping costs. I'm in
Australia, shipping to the USA will probably be at least AU$20.
5 Jun
5 Jun
12:25 a.m.
That seems to be really interesting stuff !
Unfortunately, i neither have the space for that machine nor the money to get that
one paid (and shipped !!) ...
... but as i searched on infomation, i found a reference to a Xerox Dlily board, which
seems to fit into an old ISA machine, at least, this one should not lead to space problems
:-)
Is there any information available on that one ?
Bernd
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 11:57:01 +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
Hello everyone.
Several years ago I got a Xerox workstation from a junkyard. I believe
the model is a Daybreak. At that time I got it partially booting,
using some homebrew interfacing hardware.
At the meantime I got married, and I have to get rid of the thing
(lack of space and wife's interest ;). However, I don't want it teared
apart for recycling. I want it preserved. Therefore, I'm puting it to
sale!
I live in Lisbon, Portugal (EU).
I have some photos online at the following URL:
http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/library/gallery/Xeroxworkstation
I also have three peripherals: two tape streamers and one 5 1/4 floppy
drive.
Since it has no keyboard, mouse or monitor, I built interfaces to
connect it to a VGA monitor, and to a PC. I can include the stuff I
did with the machine.
Cheers,
Rodrigo Ventura
--
*** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt>
*** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda
*** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR:
*** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa
*** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL
*** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585
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