My new toys: Apollo and Osborne 1

From: Wouter de Waal <wrm_at_ccii.co.za>
Date: Mon Nov 1 02:51:01 1999

Hans said:

>>WD7000 scsi/hdd controller
>
>The WD7000 is an ESDI controller

As well as a SCSI controller for the tape drive.

The controller in the 3000 is an OMTI-8, looks like MFM.

>The bus is completely incompatible with the PC ISA bus. Nothing is likely to
>work.

Yikes! So why did they call it an ISA bus? Just to get my hopes
up, I'm sure.

>monitor cable with it but I have one from a Decstation that works OK. They
>run a unique OS called Domain which I don't have. Mine has a 300meg ESDI

I have some tapes, lessee, from the top of the box,
017062-001 Rev 00 CRTG_FTN_1 FTN V10.7 M/V10.7.MPX
013736 Rev 00 CRTG_PHIGS_1 PHIGS Ver 1.0
017287-001 Rev 00 CRTG_STD_SFW_1 System release ver SR10.2
017286-001 Rev 00 CRTG_SFW_BOOT_1 System release ver SR10.2
017287-003 Rev 00 CRTG_STD_SFW_3 System release ver SR10.2
017287-002 Rev 00 CRTG_STD_SFW_2 System release ver SR10.2

and third party, Auto-trol Technology CREATED JANUARY, 1989
Part No.: 100-74067-003 Rev.:00030B
S7K ENCRYPTION KEY MEDIA, APL
RELEASE 3.0 LMPI 0303
CARTRIDGE 1 OF 1 ECN: A4222

Wouter

BTW, can someone please forward digest 940? Our upstream
provider lost an argument with a bulldozer, line was down
for most of two days...
Received on Mon Nov 01 1999 - 02:51:01 GMT