Data General One

From: James L. Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Tue Apr 21 18:11:56 1998

There was a series of industrial computers marketed by Allen-Bradley,
produced by DG and based on the DG1 that were hard drive equipted...I
have one, but my drive is trashed.

James L. Rice

Christian Fandt wrote:
>
> There was no hard drive option available for this machine (unless there was
> a third party outfit who offered an internal kludge or external unit.) Only
> one _or_ two internal floppies plus the external floppy unit.
>
> IIRC, the extra ribbon connector was for a memory expansion module.
>
> Regards, Chris
>
> At 15:21 20-04-98 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >There's an interesting one. I only have two floppy drives. Where
> >would the hard drive go? There's an extra ribbon plug on the MB,
> >same as for the display and keyboard, what's that for?
> >
> >>
> >>I'd like the hard drive if it still works.
> >>
> >>James L. Rice
> >>
> >>Max Eskin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I got a Data General One laptop that someone was using as a wheel-
> >>> chock at a flea market. It has a smashed LCD, and won't start.
>
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