Hi,
I just bought a strange looking machine at a Salvation Army store. It's
from AES Data Inc., Montreal, Canada. Model # is 7100, which is on the
plate on the front. I haven't brought it home yet because it's too damn
heavy to carry.
The monitor is attached to the machine via a swivel neck. Two
full-height 5.25" disk drives are attached to the right hand side. The
drives are part of the unit, but they're made to look separate, especially
by their height which is much taller than the rest of the machine. (The
drives are stacked one on top of the other.)
The port on the back which is labeled "Printer", is a female connector
which has pins arranged in a grid pattern. The connector looks very, very
similar to the game controller connector on a Magnavox Odyssey.
There's another port on the back which is a male edge connector. I didn't
count the number of pins on it.
The keyboard uses a wide phone-jack style connector, and it has a
grounding wire which screws to the back of the machine.
Does anyone know if this is just a strange looking early MS-DOS machine,
or a CP/M beast, or if it's something entirely different?
I can't wait to get it home and open it up to see what's inside.
Providing I can figure out how to open it. :)
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Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
Received on Thu Mar 11 1999 - 18:09:00 GMT