On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 22:54 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
I thought it was Advent Imaging, but anyway...
Quite possible someone made a mistake in writing the disk labels of
course (they're copies, not originals)
Advent were a major user of PERQs in the UK at
one time. I got my T4 (!)
Nice! :) I gather the T4's pretty rare...
I believe only 2 are known...
Heh. I've got the CPU Techref from Dave (which I suspect came from you
originally - looks like your writing on the envelope!). Even that
mentions the T4 as being extremely rare.
I think one of
the PERQ boards I picked up yesterday's probably an OIO.
I've got one complete machine (but currently totally dismantled) with
landscape monitor, keyboard etc. from Dave W. (PNX on the 5.25" disk)
They're not hard to put together. The boards go into the cardcage with
the chips facing the RHS of the machine, and the boards are keyed so they
can't go in the wrong slots. From the left, the slots are : CPU Option
(nearly always empty, although a few hackers put a tape streamer card in
there), CPU, Memory, EIO, OIO.
Yep, I didn't expect it to be too difficult. I can't hang onto the
machine for long as it's taking up car space in the garage - but I am
tempted to put it back together here and have a play with it :-)
The landscape monitor is a Moniterm chassis. They are
_very_ unreliable.
The CRTs lose emission, the EHT blocks (a partially-potted module, there
is no schematic in the official service manual) fail too. I must do a
workarounf for the latter sometime. The KME Portrait monitors (as on the
T1s) are a lot more reliable.
Yikes. This one does work apparently; it was last booted only a week
ago. 1280x1024 isn't bad considering the age of the machine...
Hmm, not sure if I have cables between monitor and chassis yet - I think
they might still be at Dave's place.
I really need to talk myself into *not* attempting to keep this machine
though, no room! :-)
cheers
Jules