680x0's, Towers, & Serendipity

From: Jeff Kaneko <Jeff.Kaneko_at_ifrsys.com>
Date: Mon Jun 8 13:00:14 1998

> 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 :)

I haven't looked at that NG for awhile. The 400 series towers were
under the distinct diadvantage that there was no (official) support
for TCP/IP.
 
> 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).

You know, I had the address of a vendor that could get you those;
unfortunately, though, they wanted an arm and a leg for it >:-P. I
got the tapes for my machine, but NCR states vehemently that they
*cannot* be copied. I don't believe this, of course (how did they
write the tape in the 1st place?), but I dont' know how you would
copy them.

The tower actually *boots* from the tape during install! Is that
crazy or what?


Jeff

> 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 - 13:00:14 BST