AT&T 6300/Xerox 6400

From: Ernest <ernestls_at_home.com>
Date: Sun Feb 13 17:37:57 2000

Xerox licensed the 6300 system from AT&T, repainted it, and called it the
6400. The machines are mostly identical inside and out, except for the
coloring. The Xerox is a little newer.

I know of a place, here in Seattle, that has lots of 6300 monitors and
keyboards for very cheap so if anyone buys the 6300 at San Antonio, I can
gather up the extra parts that you would need and ship them to you for cost
plus shipping -maybe $30 to $40 total, and as I said before, I also have a
the ATT MSDOS, and other software so that's available also. I even have an
extra mouse that I could sell, for the right price.

The 6300 is a funky machine but you won't see to many of them around in
working condition. Everything about them is proprietary, but you can add 8
bit ISA cards.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ernest
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 3:04 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Available in San Antonio, TX, moderately boring stuff.


You can plug other old monitors into it if you get an adapter, however there
are a couple of things that you should know first.

The monochrome monitor does get it's power from the video card but if you
open the case, and unplug the little orange/black power plug off of the
video card, you can then plug the AT&T color monitor into it. If you don't
unplug the video power plug first, you will melt your color monitor. If you
do a search for AT&T 6300 on altavista, you'll get a bunch of pin maps for
the 6300 video and keyboard plugs.

Also, if anyone is interested, I have a bunch of 6300 software, including
the hard to find keyboard mouse drivers. I also have UNIX System 5 release 2
for the 6300+. I can make copies for you. Does anyone else have any unusual
6300 software -I have a little ATT product catalog which lists tons and tons
of 6300 series software and add on parts.

Ernest

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 11:27 AM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Available in San Antonio, TX, moderately boring stuff.


> picking it up. Also the 6300s need special monitors with 15 (or 25?) pin
> connectors.

IIRC, it's a DB25 connector, and it carries the (12V) power for the
monochrome monitor, so plugging anything else into the monitor socket is
a very bad idea.

-tony
Received on Sun Feb 13 2000 - 17:37:57 GMT