680x0's, Towers, & Serendipity was:Stupid lusers...

From: Julian Richardson <JRichardson_at_softwright.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jun 8 11:26:09 1998

>> Anyways, I also have a 400 series Tower (as mentioned in the exerpt
>> below), and lots of spare boards (including the meter-long
>> systemboard).

nice to know there's still some Tower users about - there seemed to be
quite a following a few years ago but interest in them seems to have
dried up (although there's probably a few posts to comp.sys.ncr still -
one day I'll get proper Usenet access here :)

do you know if NCR (or AT&T, or whoever's responsible for these things
these days!!) can still supply OS tapes? I got my '700 with all sorts of
software on the disks - the guys it came from we in to developing
programs for X-windows so there's quite a lot of cool stuff on there.
Sadly no OS tapes and no manuals (I borrowed field service manuals from
someone a while back so have all the useful info from there).

mind you, last time I tried to power up the machine it was completely
dead. I only had a few minutes so checked obvious fuses etc, but without
any luck. Hopefully something simple - I don't fancy trying to trace a
fault on one of those system boards :*)
>

cheers

Jules
Received on Mon Jun 08 1998 - 11:26:09 BST