Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <And so, the dilemma... do I open the disks and crank this critter up? Or
> <just pack it all away as another classic 'artifact'? (or leave it until I
> <have a fair amount of time to spend with it)
>
> Open it and crak it up. make full copies and backups. Save all packaging
> by sliting the edges or whatever so that any making is preserved. Exploit
> and document the machine to the world as I have no clue what a 3b1 is or
> the cpu it used. Though I do remember the ads.
Damn, does this mean I actually have to get off my ass and do some real
work?
Gimme a day or three to reread my docs and FAQs and condense things.
As a start, the CPU was a 10Mhz MC68010, memory was 512k to 2MB on the
motherboard, expandable with cards to at most 4MB. Disk was 10MB to
67MB stock, and no expansion was possible 67MB (1024 cyl by 8 head) was
ever supported -- the users came up with ways to add a second and/or
larger hard disk, but most of the components needed have long been
discontinued.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sun Nov 16 1997 - 13:28:03 GMT