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

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Mon Jun 8 12:13:06 1998

Cool!!! (And to think that I nearly paid $50 for one of those Sharps...)
BTW, find any A2 software?
    Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kaneko <Jeff.Kaneko_at_ifrsys.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:16 AM
Subject: 680x0's, Towers, & Serendipity was:Stupid lusers...


You know, serendipidy is a funny thing. I was at a flea market on
Sunday looking for some Apple ][ software, when this guy comes
walking into the booth bearing an ATT 7300 UnixPC (and a C-64).

He asks the proprietor what he'll give for this 'stuff'. The prop.
looks at the 'stuff', offers him $15 for the Commodore, and when
asked about the 7300 says: "Nope, cant offer you anything for
it. Can't use it. Too dumb." Hm.

So I offers the guy $5. "I had no idea 7300's were so *heavy*", I
thought as I later hefted it into the trunk of my car.

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

I could have purchased a 68020 conversion kit for my tower from
WierdStuff in San Jose (this was back in the days when they carried
actually interesting material), but I didn't have the bucks.


Jeff


> >> The MC68010 is the heart of my favorite computer ever, the AT&T Unix PC
> >> (built by Convergent Technologies). I've got three, two work fine, one
> >> is for parts. _Still_ the prettiest machines in my collection.
>
> Do you mean the NCR Tower series? Or was this some other offering by
> AT&T? I seem to remember that the old Tower 400's had 68010's - I've
> still got a few boards somewhere for one (system board was about 1 metre
> long and half a metre high!). I've got a complete Tower 700 with a 68030
> as main CPU, and performance still rates really highly even these
> days...)
>
>
> Jules
>
>
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