AT&T 6300/Xerox 6400

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Sun Feb 13 19:57:55 2000

I thought the Olivetti was Xerox's 6060? It's an elegantly beautiful
machine, with the styling improved over the 6300, but all minor changes.
I have only seen two myself, a stripped carcass, and an almost mint set
with software that we were given.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Ernest wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

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