12 Jun
1998
12 Jun
'98
9:46 a.m.
Found a stack of AT&T computers. Some are labelled "PC 6300" (The unix PC,
iirc?) but others are marked "6300 WGS", a designation I've not heard of
before. In any case, is anyone interested in them? They're available at a
good price. Condition unknown, possible monitors/keyboards, but dunno.
Lemme know if I should pick 'em up.
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12 Jun
12 Jun
10:42 a.m.
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Uncle Roger wrote:
Found a stack of AT&T computers. Some are
labelled "PC 6300" (The unix PC,
iirc?) but others are marked "6300 WGS", a designation I've not heard of
before.
The 6300 WGS (Work Group Server) was a tower cased system that was not
quite as odd as the regular 6300 and was primarily marketed as a
multi-user UNIX platform..
Worked on both for a number of years...
-jim
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10:54 a.m.
Roger,
The 6300 isn't the Unix PC. It's a PC XT clone that will run IBM PC DOS
(very compatible) and it has an 8086 CPU. BUT it requires a special
monitor that gets it's power (150 Volts) from the CPU box through the video
cable.
The 7300 (a.k.a. 3B1) was the UNIX PC.
I'm not sure what a 6300 WGS is but there's lots of 6386 WGSs in a trift
store here. They're low end 386 MS-DOS machines.
Joe
At 01:46 PM 6/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
Found a stack of AT&T computers. Some are labelled
"PC 6300" (The unix PC,
iirc?) but others are marked "6300 WGS", a designation I've not heard of
before. In any case, is anyone interested in them? They're available at a
good price. Condition unknown, possible monitors/keyboards, but dunno.
Lemme know if I should pick 'em up.
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Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
11 a.m.
Joe wrote:
Roger,
The 6300 isn't the Unix PC. It's a PC XT clone that will run IBM PC DOS
(very compatible) and it has an 8086 CPU. BUT it requires a special
monitor that gets it's power (150 Volts) from the CPU box through the video
cable.
I was looking at a Xerox 6060 PC that has a monitor which appears to be
the same. Does anyone know for sure if the Xerox monitor will run off a
6300 video port? If so, I might go back and see if it's still there...
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13 Jun
13 Jun
3:38 p.m.
Greg,
I doubt it's the same. The 6300s were built in Italy by Olivette and has
a DB-25 connector for the video. But I do have an extra AT&T monitor if you
need it.
BTW I picked up a AT&T 386 computer at a hamfest today. It's a model
A1076 and it's much larger than the 6300. Does anyone know anything about it?
Joe
At 01:00 PM 6/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
Joe wrote:
Roger,
The 6300 isn't the Unix PC. It's a PC XT clone that will run IBM PC DOS
(very compatible) and it has an 8086 CPU. BUT it requires a special
monitor that gets it's power (150 Volts) from the CPU box through the video
cable.
I was looking at a Xerox 6060 PC that has a monitor which appears to be
the same. Does anyone know for sure if the Xerox monitor will run off a
6300 video port? If so, I might go back and see if it's still there...
--
mor(a)crl.com
http://www.crl.com/~mor/
12 Jun
12 Jun
4:50 p.m.
Uncle Roger wrote:
Found a stack of AT&T computers. Some are labelled "PC 6300" (The unix
PC,
iirc?) but others are marked "6300 WGS", a designation I've not heard of
before. In any case, is anyone interested in them? They're available at a
good price. Condition unknown, possible monitors/keyboards, but dunno.
Lemme know if I should pick 'em up.
The 6300 was not the Unix PC, it was an Olivetti-built more-or-less
PC-compatible system. The WGS series happened later, they spanned
systems from 8088 to at least 80386-25 before AT&T switched from
Olivetti to Intel boxes (yes, Intel built complete PCs). The 6300+
(80286) _did_ run Unix and featured the first DOS-under-Unix product,
SimulTask 1.0.
I've got an AT&T 6386E tower next to me that will be used (box and
power supply anyway) as a home for my workstation from Hell as soon
as motherboard design changes stabilise for two months in a row.
The old 386/25 motherboard will be placed on the wall as either a
decoration or as a warning depending on the size of the nails I use.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
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