Anyone have an Ethernet interface card for an AT&T 730 terminal?

[Josh Dersch]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 1:21 PM Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:17 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> I just finished taking pictures and dumping the firmware from a 730X
>> terminal
>> but it turns out it has a Starlan and not an Ethernet interface. It would
>> be
>> nice to get a firmware dump from an Ethernet card. A start of a 630
>> driver is
>> in MAME.
>>
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> Mine has a Starlan 10 adapter in it, which is apparently close enough to
> twisted-pair Ethernet that it can be bridged with one of AT&T's Starlan
> hubs, which is how I have it wired to my network.  I'll see if I can dump
> the ROMs, but they're not socketed so it'll take a bit of surgery.  I also
> have the ISDN adapter, which has socketed EPROMs.
>

Also my 730X cart is newer -- it's the 730+ X Cartridge, Issue 1.2 (c)
1991.  I'll get those dumped too, hopefully this weekend.

- Josh



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> - Josh
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>> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/730/730X
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>> It also appears the keyboards for the 630 and 730 aren't backwards
>> compatible
>> with the other 6xx products and the 5620. 5620 keyboards need -12v which
>> the 630 or 730
>> don't supply, and the 610 keyboard doesn't appear to work either. Josh
>> took a couple
>> of pictures of his 630 keyboard and even though they look similar, the
>> earlier keyboards
>> were made by Teletype and the 630 is made by Keytronic.
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