Tony Duell wrote:
It is made up
of 4 tall boards wth part numbers like
140K0xxxx where xxxx are digits.
Can anyone id this system?
Yes, it sounds a little like a Xerox Daybreak, I think. I found one at a
radio rally earlier this year for the very low price of \pounds 10.00, so
it's now sitting alongside me.
There are 5 slots in the Daybreak, although 1 or 2 may be empty. From the
left, looking from the rear, you find
1 - Display control and memory
2 - Memory expansion
3 - Mesa Processor board (Bit slice processor using 2901's)
4 - I/O, boot procesor (80186)
5 - Option I/O. I've got a laser printer card in mine.
If it's any help I've pulled the processor from slot 3 of mine, and it's
a 140K05571. I can pull the other boards if you like and check the part
numbers
I should have posted the part numbers in the original mesage, they are
printed on the spine of the cards and easily readable. Wa have 4 cards
marked from left to right looking from the back of the unit:
140K00440 140K01000 140K005570 140K05560
So our processor board is (slightly) different and I do not recall there
being room for a fifth card.
Mine has a 5.25" drive in separate case on top.
No reason why a 3.5"
drive couldn't be used instead, of course (although this may not be an
'official' modificiation.
Indeed, the box is certainly large enough for a 5.25" unit.
So waht was the Daybreak, was it one of the internal research Xerox
machines?
- Hans