Julian Richardson wrote:
>
> >> 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
Some of the NCR Towers were repackaged Convergent 'frames, but the AT&T
Unix PC was a desktop system (hang on a second, there's a URL around
here someplace -- I've got to get a digital camera and take my own
pictures sometime -- <
http://www.mathcs.rhodes.edu/~stuart/3b1/3b1.html>.
In the picture the keyboard is off of the shelf (to expose the floppy
drive), when it's there the thing is a wedge with a swilt&tivel on top.
The keyboard is second only to the one that came with the Tandy 2000.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Wed Jun 10 1998 - 22:03:14 BST