>I was just given a Xerox 860 IPS computer today complete with monitor,
>keyboard, and printer. One slight problem is that so far, no docs were
>included (although they will keep their eyes open for them.) Anyone know
>what this thing is and how to power it up? This one has a multiple
>connector plug that appears to be how power gets to the unit. Other than
>that, I have not a clue yet what to do with it. Any help would be
>appreciated! A quick web search didn't pull up much that looked useful.
It's EVIL, run away, run away!!! Seriously, I've been surprised I've not
seen mention of it before this. I used one back in the Late 80's while
onboard a Frigate, the US Navy apparently had a lot of them at one time.
It was used as a Word Processing machine, not sure if it can do anything
else, IIRC the software would all be on 8" floppy. For the time it had a
great display, but the Word Processing Software sucked as I recall (or is
that just the bad memories of the 200+ page document on it I had to update).
I'm afraid I've no idea how to set it up or boot it, as I recall someone
else had to get me into the document so I could edit it. This was at the
same time I was one of the people they called if the Harris Minicomputer
crashed, or they anyone had PC troubles.
I later worked with someone that told me he took great pleasure in dumping
one down a flight of stairs when he was stationed in Rota. Needless to
say, they weren't well loved by the Naval personnel that had to use them.
Zane
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Received on Fri Oct 30 1998 - 19:45:28 GMT